The Culpeper County Public School's administration committee recommended that the School Board not move forward with a proposed drug policy, implementing random drug tests to all employees. "We discussed it at the committee level and decided against it," said Rusty Jenkins during Monday's work session citing financial and legal ramifications. And without any discussion and no action from the board, that work session item ended there. Jenkins said the idea came from a Culpeper constituent. Concerned about the well being of CCPS students, the constituent suggested that all 1,063 school employees receive random drug testing following news of a former teacher that was arrested on felony drug charges last summer. [continues 397 words]
With so many negative temptations surrounding students, local law enforcement wants to supply them with preventative tactics within a familiar classroom setting. The Culpeper County Sheriff's Office will start teaching the Drug Abuse Resistance Education curriculum at Floyd T. Binns Middle School and Culpeper Middle School today for sixth-grade health and physical education classes. DARE teaches children how to recognize and resist the daily pressures of using alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drugs. "This is a very positive program that is expected to have 26 million students in the United States participating and 36 million students worldwide," said Sheriff H. Lee Hart. [continues 153 words]
