DRUG TESTING “DEBATE” Kim
DRUG TESTING “DEBATE” Kim Swygert picked up the beat on drug testing in schools (OOPS- the Permalink isn’t working. Just click here and scroll down to 10/10/02) and via email pointed me towards one of her earliest posts on the same subject. Except for tobacco company executives, I think we can all agree that cigarettes are harmful and that minors should be discouraged from smoking. But why is this the schools’ problem? Don’t they have other, more important things to worry about? This whole drug-testing crusade is just one more example of creeping “nanny state”-ism. Here’s a prediction: I bet that within a year we see someone proposing mandatory random cholesterol screening of public school students.
Come on, don’t be a baby. It’s just a little pin-prick.
Or maybe just random weigh-ins?
Hey, Beth, look’s like you’ve put on a few pounds. How ’bout you step up on this scale?
Instapundit has a good line about politicians that I think may be equally valid for edu-nanny-crats: