Action postponed on student random drug testing (Daily Sparks Tribune)
A decision on a pilot program for random drug testing of McQueen High School football players was delayed Tuesday after the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees requested more time for consideration.
McQueen football coach Ken Dalton and Katherine Loudon of Safe and Drug Free Schools proposed the approval of the program at the Reno high school to determine if such an undertaking would exist effective in curbing student put drugs into use and provide treatment.
“Drug use can turn to abuse and addition and traps our students in a vicious cycle,” Loudon said. “What are we while a district willing to do to investigate and utilize all resources, recommendations and programs to keep kids against drugs?”
The unsalable article testing would last with respect to 15 weeks, starting in August, which coincides with the start of the football season, and randomly proof 12 students every week for use of 11 different substances. With parent add student permit, the student would follow strict protocol and give a urine sample. All samples would be analyzed at a forensics toxicology lab and if a positive is determined, parents would be notified in order to determine if the student is taking prescribed medication or granting that they were using illegal substances.
Superintendent Paul Dugan fixed at the encounter that the $10,000 funding for the program would be shouldered in concern by his superintendent’s budget, funded by taxpayers, and in concern by McQueen’s football program.
Read more concerning this issue in Thursday’s Tribune.
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