my school is doing random drug testing.

Yup down here is shit faced Texas my high school is starting random drug test. So i have a few weeks and i doubt that they will test me frist thing. never in trouble never been caught with drugs have very average grades. alround quite easy to miss kid. i think for the first few months i'll stop smokeing i figure if i get one clean test they will not test me agian. but i want to smoke till the end of the summer.

so just in case they test me early in the year what are so tips on passing a drug test. i'm usure what type but were a lower buget school district so i assume it's not the highest grade test.

 

this is why i am homeschooled.

 

Good for your parents! I homeschool mine, too, for this and other reasons. It bothers me the intense interest schools and some places of employment have in other people's bodily fluids. I consider drug tests to be invasive, and would never want my son to be put through such humiliation, regardless of my stance on the drugs themselves.

 

tip one:
you have lots of notice, so dont use drugs.

 

damn. that sucks they're doing random drug testing. how often do you smoke man? if you smoke ALOT (like, 3-4 times a day) then stop, NOW. a report said they could detect weed in the urine for up to 12 weeks. but if you smoke lightly, say, once a week, you'll be fine. it will only stay in your body for 3-4 days. so, keep smoking till 1-2 weeks before school, and then stop.

 

i'm gona smoke up this last once i bought and i do smoke heavly. that sucks because my perents are goning out of town the last week before school and i want to smoke my brain out.


there is no reason for me to think i'll be tested. but to be safe i'm gonna guzzle gallons of water a day and take vitamin b and maybe keep the hot water idea in mind.

 

water isn't going to do much for ya man. thc isn't water soluable. excersicing would be better, OR, just don't "smoke your brain out" and do it about once a week.

 

actually water has helped me every time. drink tons of it so that all you piss out is water.

but when i have had to pass them and had been a pot head quite a bit, i found that taking Niacin in regular intervals, mixed with lots and lots of water did the trick for me. and man just in case you don't know.....niacin burns the toxins out of your system through your pores, so it feels like sunburn(depending on how many milligrams you take)

 

cant u refuse drug tests and make em get a warrant?

 

Yeah, there has to be some sort of parental consent form that has to be signed.

 

God that is fucking sick, who the hell do these people think they are, just makes me sick that schools and employers feel the need to do this. Sure I wouldn't want tweekers or junkies working for me but you know when they give you a piss test they are more often than not looking for THC and it's sad because it costs them a lot of good workers...I thought that if you were a minor they had to have parents consent for any drug testing...

 

Yeah thats illegal, especially if they are doing urine tests. I am guessing they are trying to scarey you guys. If you do get asked to give a sample, i would refuse saying that you feel its an invasion of your privacy. If they get pushy with you, I guess there isnt anything to do unless you want to try to sue them... lol.

 

buy piss from someone lol before the test XD

 

Im pretty sure that shit is illegal man. I mean even if they do test kids, what the fuck are they gonna do if you come up positive? put you on probation? schools can't do that shit. I say, if they do test tho, refuse. what are they gonna do? hold u down and make u piss?

 

seconded, not like they can MAKE you piss dude lol.

 

Drug Testing in Schools:

* Studies of college students have shown that there is little or no difference in the grade point average, career aspiration, or participation in extracurricular activities between students who use marijuana and those who don't.

Source: "Drug Testing," pg. 12.
* Nonetheless, another area where the traditional standard for searches has been relaxed is in the drug testing of school children. In part because of the guardian-like role schools play in the lives of children, the Supreme court has lowered the requirements for searching students (or drug testing them) to reasonable suspicion.

Source: Case history of this is summarized in Scalia, Vernonia decision, 1995, link provided below.
* In 1995, in Vernonia v. Acton, the Supreme Court upheld suspicionless school drug testing of athletes, on the grounds that athletes frequently engage in dangerous activity, and are thus more likely to injure themselves if playing while under the influence of drugs. The Court also stated that as school athletes routinely face mandatory physicals and other similar invasions of privacy, they have lower expectations of privacy than the average student. The Court specified that its decision should not be seen as a justification for further expansion of drug testing programs.

Source: Scalia, Vernonia v. Acton, 1995, link provided above.
* Nonetheless, schools have used this decision to institute broader and broader drug testing policies, some introducing student consent to random drug testing as a requirement for involvement in extra-curricular activities. Some of these policies have since been upheld by lower courts.


* In 1999, a school in Lockney, Texas became the first to implement a universal testing policy of all students, grades six through twelve, regardless of particular suspicion or extra-curricular involvement. This testing policy was later struck down by a federal court.


* The ACLU Drug Policy Litigation Project (DPLP) believes such drug testing policies to be both invasive and counter-productive. Involvement in extra-curricular activities has been shown to be one of the most sure-fire ways to keep kids out of trouble. The project has been involved in two school drug testing cases, in Lockney, Texas, and Tecumseh, Oklahoma. To find out more about this issue, and to see what the Project is doing to protect students' rights, visit A Test You Can't Study For.



* The Drug Policy Alliance has put together an action pack for parents and educators who are opposed to student drug testing. To learn more, please visit www.drugtestingfails.org.


from here:
http://www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/testing/10842res20021021.html


If you are not an athelete or involved in extracurricular activities they cannot randomly test you. If they single you out for a test, tell them you do not consent to a search or a test. They cannot violate your rights just because they are a school. This goes for ripping through your locker or backpack searching for drugs as well. (Don't bring them to school, duh.) Refusing a search is not legal grounds for "reasonable suspicion."

 

The letter my parents got said:

"Rufuseal to take the test will be treated as a positive test. The first postive test will result in a letter being sent home. The second will result in detention at the Student Adjustment Center (SAC). The third postive test will result in expulsion."

it's not a scare tactic my school had a huge scandal involving two school security officers who caught a student doing coke on campus and called the city police. but by give his information the the police the broke a agreement never to give student information and were fired.
oh did i forget to mention that the kid doing coke was the son of like a school distric board leader and was not even punished.

yeah so this is their answer.

 

That may be school policy, but it is not legal. You cannot be forced to take a drug test without reasonable suspicion.

 

you only have to submit to the test if you:

• drive a car and park on school grounds
• participate in UIL activities
• are in sport
• are in a club

by doing doing any of these things you and your guardians agree to the drug testing.




i know what your say justt don't join a club. well, unfortunately I'm a Senior art club officer and i can't just drop all my friend and fellow artclub members.

 

I'm not sure there's a legal justification for testing club members. The courts allow it for atheletes supposedly because they could injure themselves if on drugs. What's an art club student going to do? Suffer a terrible oil painting accident?