thoughts

. I have a question. How come in most high schools they now drug test the majority of students. Is it really a schools responsibility especially one in the public sector to test all of the students that go there. No. Not only are high school’s now violating individual freedoms, but this process will also cost lots of money. That’s money that could be used to help perform a schools primary roll to educate. I think that schools are too focused on discipline and not on their primary task which is to educate the students. Take my high school for example. We never had a problem with gangs, stabbings, shooting etc, but now there are 2 police officers and they can randomly drug test any student whom drives to school. Last year a s a senior I took civics, the books were literally held together by tape and hot glue and were from 1998. So instead of buying civics text books which the state board of education mandates as a class we bought a rent a cop who simply walks around the school and hassles certain types of people all day long. Also, shouldn’t America have free post-secondary education? I honestly probably wouldn’t be able to come to college if it weren’t for the Peoria Promise Scholarship. I feel that we should extend this possibility to all students in the U.S. if not in the world.