Before Marietta students of the preparatory one to join the team of soccer, the band or any other extracurricular activity in the next school year can have an additional requisite to expire: To spend a drugs examination.
Young Marietta Superintendente Herb said that after several discussions with the director of the institute, Bill Lee and Rick Guimond Director of Sports, the drugs tests it is very probable that on the verge of being a regular occurrence.
"We have been compiling information, and probably we are going to initiate this next year", said Young. "We would be of drugs you try any extracurricular activity. There is no anything that provoked this, but I believe that it would be good for the school and it is something that we have to do".
Girls trainer of basketball Cozzens Scott said that "really impressed" if someone in his team did not spend the test, but he said that it would support the politics.
"To be a father of a child who was across the secondary school and one there now, I know that not always they know what it is spending", he said. "We are not there all the time, and the children take bad decisions occasionally".
Cozzens said that he and other trainers already to tackle the problem of the abuse of substances with the players regularly. Not long ago, he read a journalistic article about an ex-player now in problems with the law due to the consumption of alcohol and the drugs.
"If they think that it cannot beat here, it does it, not only in the big cities", he said. "I wanted to make come this message. I know that all the trainers of educating the children the best thing that we can. We are not personnel investigators, but we speak about decisions on the good and how all the decisions that it takes them closer or further of his targets".
Marietta player of soccer of the school and fighter Matt McKitrick, 16, said that the frequent conversations of trainer of American soccer Andy Schob to make to resound with him.
"He is one of my big models, and he speaks with us all the time in doing the correct thing", said McKitrick, a student of the second year. "We have had some players in the team in problems as things that earlier, but the trainer has spoken really to us this year and we have listened to him. I believe that all this year has been very good."
McKitrick said that it does not have any problem in spite of taking a drugs test before being authorized to play.
"I know that there are children it can be a couple that I do not believe that it was right, because they think that it has not anything in common with the sport", he said. "But I believe that it does it. And I love the great sport to do (medicines)."
Schob said that it has noticed an increasing number of secondary schools of the tests to his athletes in the last years.
"Cambridge, Logan, Jackson... are doing all," he said. "I am a finished defender for him. I believe that we are to a point in the current society, where we need this one in the level of secondary to help our children".
The drugs tests in the public schools it has been historically controversial, with several judgments therefore it is to the Supreme Court of the USA.
Those who criticize the tests say that they can do that the innocent students, sit that they are under the suspicion of the adults, which invades the privacy of the students and it can put barriers to his participation in positive activities.
"All the available studies demonstrate that the best way of preparing the drugs consumption between the students is that they take part in extracurricular activities", American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) representative Graham Boyd argued before the Supreme Court in 2002, as part of a case of Oklahoma is proved by you of drugs of the students. The test allowed him to continue, after the Supreme Court he passed that it was constitutional because the out-of-school activities are voluntary.
Schools of the City of Dublin in Ohio it was demanded in 2001 by the ACLU of Ohio, who supported that the district was at random tests of the students without having to demonstrate that there was a problem of the drugs between the students. The district ultimately, it suspended the test.
Meanwhile, it tries in some schools in Ohio and in the whole country it has become even more wide, with some politics that need tests for any student with permissions of parking, as well as those that take part in extracurricular activities.
Schob said that the parents that he has spoken a big support of the tests has been.
«It would not be doing this to punish the children and the apprehensions children", he said. "It is to give them a support to the system and to help with the group pressure. It is already quite difficult for the children to be said not sometimes - this is a reason to say not".
If the district promulgates the politics, which would have to be voted for the meeting of education, which would be the first district of the County of Washington to do it.
"There is been only a debate here", said Warren Local Superintendent of the Schools Tom Gibbs. "Unless we have any important calls of the parents asking that his children have proved... we do not have any system in his place and there are no plans to do it."
Gibbs said that if the trainers, teachers or managers to do signs announcement of abuse of drugs or alcohol, it is said to the parents and they are faced to free or of low cost of the community resources that can help them, if it is necessary.
Young said that one does not feel that there is a widespread problem of drugs between Marietta's students, but it sees to a drugs analysis like a dissuasion politics.
"If you have a student, you have a problem", he said. "We want to avoid that that".
The students it will be realized at the beginning of the period and then at random during the period.
Young said that the cost of the tests of drugs is still investigated, but that the status is general in any place of only a few dollars to $ 40 for test.
In the Cabell county, West Virginia, where there are more than 1.700 students of secondary, the cost for year of test of drugs finds between $ 27.000 and $ 30.000 for the district, to a $ cost 27 for test.
"There are still many details that to prepare before being able to initiate this one", said Young. "We cannot do it during the night, but it is something that we all feel that we have to do.
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