ZIONSVILLE, Ind. – Zionsville, Indiana school board members are poised to debate a plan to “randomly” drug tests students – as many as seven times a year each.
The Indy Star reports:
The Zionsville Board of School Trustees are set tonight to debate whether students at the high school should be randomly drug tested, a proposal that follows more than a dozen drug overdoses in Boone County last year.
If an early draft of the proposal is passed, any student who participates in athletics, extra-curriculars and school dances would be eligible for testing.
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But don’t fear: it’s for their safety.
“Anything that makes a school safer is a good thing,” Maj. Aaron Dietz of the Carmel Police Department and Hamilton/Boone County Drug Task Force tells the paper. “This can catch a kid who is in trouble or is going to be in trouble.”
The tests – which would cost about $36 per student – would be paid for with concession and vending machine revenues.
“The current plan is to drug test students picked randomly from a pool as many as seven times a year during classes,” the Star reports.
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