Should Middle School Students Be Drug Tested

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Do you think that middle school students should be drug tested? Here are three reasons to why people agree, and why people disagree. Did you know that some parents say that this is unconstitutional? Students who were randomly drug tested were also less likely to use drugs in later years, and most kids have actually learned how to cheat at these tests!
In the first place, some parents say that this is unconstitutional. These groups of people believe that having their children drug tested should be against the law, and that it is invading their teen’s privacy. However if parents refuse giving their child a drug test it is more likely that the parents know that their child is using drugs.
On the other hand, kids that were randomly drug tested

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