PEQUANNOCK, N.J. — Teens who drink alcohol could be caught three days later under a high school's new testing policy for students.
The test, which will be given randomly to students at Pequannock Township High School, can detect whether alcohol was consumed up to 80 hours earlier. The legal drinking age in the United States is 21.
Other districts already use the test. Middletown began using it last spring for students suspected of using drugs and alcohol. This month, the district expanded it to include a random pool of about 1,800 students.
Pequannock Superintendent Larrie Reynolds said the policy approved last week should be a deterrent to students who feel peer pressure to drink.
Under the program, students who test positive will not be kicked off teams or barred from extracurricular activities, Reynolds said. Instead, they will receive counseling — and their parents will be notified..."
Counseling? MY tax dollars are being used so that the government may COUNCIL a kid who had a beer? Schools are for teaching. Not for "counseling" any bloody thing.
And what about families in which the consumption of small amounts of alcohol is part of their heritage? I was sipping watered-down wine at the age of 12...never even close to intoxication...and what a youngster does AT FRICKING HOME should be no one elses business, and certainly NOT the governments.
Talk about an invasion of privacy. Don't dare have a peek at which how-to-blow-up-an-airliner book some raghead is borrowing from his local library, but CAN demand that children line up for urine analysis.
Lord but I despise these people.
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