I am clean and sober. I am a teacher. Drugs are for sick people.

The Department of Education already has a law in place that states that if a teacher is suspected of taking drugs, she or he will have to be tested.

Although the majority of teachers voted to ratify the contract that included the governor's drug testing program, they did it, in my opinion, because it was tied to pay raises.

I did not succumb to what I saw as blatant extortion; I voted no on ratifying the new contract.

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