School board considers student athlete drug testing today (Daily Sparks Tribune)
McQueen High School?s football program may be the first in the district to conduct random student athlete drug testing if the pilot program is approved by the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees today.
The board pleasure consider requests from McQueen?session football coaching staff, administrators and parents to identify athletes under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration?session approved procedures and policies.
The objective is to increase graduation rates and decrease student dropout rates, which can be affected by a student?session drug use, according to staff reports.
The cost for the one-year pilot is $10,000. Half of that amount is to be funded by McQueen?s football program and moiety paid for by dint of. the district.
The recommended program is meant to retain students safe, bridle. peer pressure and provide a in accordance with law intellect to refuse illegal drug practice, encourage students who use drugs to seek help in drug treatment programs and to keep students healthy and prepared to learn in the classroom, according to prior staff reports.
?It is well known that drug practice interferes with a student?s ability to learn,? Katherine Loudon, the district?sitting Safe and Drug Free Schools coordinator, uttered. ?A single use can result in accidents, violence, unplanned risky behavior, arrest and maybe an overdose. Repeated use can lead to addiction. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicates that students who use drugs are more likely to drop out of school, cut classes and damage or destroy property.?
The random testing would require football players to submit a urine sample to a medical review officer, who would also be a licensed physician. Parents and students will need to omen a consent agreement at the beginning of the school year in order to participate.
About 20 percent of eligible athletes will be randomly pure on a bi-weekly basis anytime during the football season.
Should a positive result be construct, parents behest be notified and the learner will be required to submit to five periodical urine tests end the next calendar year. The athlete will have the option to participate in a deaden with narcotics assistance program.
A second positive result will bar the pupil from participation in McQueen?s football program for one calendar year and must show results from a certified substance abuse professional to have existence reinstated.
If drugs are present in the sample a third time, the student will be barred from the high school program on account of the remnant of their time at McQueen.
Students will not face literary penalties if traces of drugs are found in the samples.
Nationally, more than 1,000 schools in 40 states use random drug testing and are supported by Partnership for a Drug Free America and the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.
Also, the testing program is endorsed and supported by the U.S. Department of Education and Congress through incentive confer funding and has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Board of Trustees meets today at 4 p.fray. at the WCSD administration building, 425 E. Ninth St., Reno. Loudon, Superintendent Paul Dugan and McQueen football coach Ken Dalton will bestow a presentation.
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