I do not want our children tested for drugs. All three have participated in science clubs, honor activities, scholars bowls, math and sports teams, and more. Often it is the children who are doing the right thing who end up getting punished for the few.

I spent almost 28 years in the Army having to undergo numerous random drug tests, no matter that all the previous ones had come back negative. They only made me annoyed and resentful.

No matter how it is done, drug testing is invasive, degrading, discriminating, and, although slim, there's always a chance of a false positive whose stigma will remain. In a school district crying for money and asking for fees and dues and doing an untold number of fundraisers for the same students it is targeting, it would be a waste of money that could be used better elsewhere.

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