08-08-2013, 06:52 PM
(08-08-2013, 06:19 PM)F.U. Dont ask again Wrote: If my children did not want to buy it, dont buy it. Its that simple and it would end there. I taught my kids that snitching is a no no, In my world snitching is looked down upon.
That's pretty much how it went where I grew up and within my family when it came to what people chose to do to themselves.
How do you feel about schools doing random alcohol testing of high school students throughout the year, F.U.?
There's a new technology that detects (from a snippet of hair) whether a person has consumed alcohol within the last 90 days. The product/service was just released last month by Psychemedics and is already being used at private schools in Illinois.
Psychemedics looks to be some undertaking some major marketing/advertising designed to penetrate the private school market across the country; a lot of schools in various states are reportedly looking into it.
The ACLU would block such testing at public schools, for now. But, private schools are outside of its reach.
I partied on the weekends in high school (sometimes way too much which was stupid and occasionally not safe), but it was part of the experience and pretty damn good times. Then again, four of my friends/acquaintances died due to alcohol (2 in a single DUI crash) and drugs before we graduated. A whole lot more of my graduating class really wasted out as adults.
I honestly have no idea whether testing and expulsion for failing (and offering early counseling and treatment) would have made any difference in the paths we all took.
Just curious at to how those with children and grandchildren feel about it.