As a junior at Sheyenne High School this year, I know how important a safe school is to the well-being of the students. Additionally, I understand how drugs can be detrimental to the education, and forming, of the young minds this school works relentlessly to yield. I bring this up because our school faces a problem. That problem is drug and substance abuse. Subsequently, I remain a strong proponent of allowing police officers with drug-sniffing dogs to make occasional, unannounced visits to high schools to search school property, including student lockers, that the dogs identify as suspicious. And while I admit that other well-informed people present valid arguments against the allowance of this practice. I strongly believe that
