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Newsbrief:
Chicago
Catholic
High
School
to
Drug
Test
All
Students
12/5/03
Beginning next fall, Chicago's
St. Patrick's High School will become the first in the state and possibly
the nation to require all students to submit to drug tests. Since
St. Patrick's is a private school, it is not bound by Supreme Court rulings
that bar the suspicionless testing of all students. The Supreme Court
has so far carved out "rights free" zones only for student athletes, students
involved in extracurricular activities, and students who want access to
parking permits.
"We're really doing it to
help our kids," Principal Schmidt told WBBM radio Wednesday. "We
want to take a little peer pressure off of them and be able to have a good
reason to say no to drugs." But it's not a "zero tolerance" approach,
he said. "The whole program has an emphasis of, 'Don't do drugs.
If you do drugs, stop. If you can't stop, get some help,'" Schmidt
said. Students should quit now, he said. "They have really
100 days, because that kid's going to get tested again," Schmidt said.
"We'd better see some improvement, if not a total stop, in terms of what
happens with that drug use."
All students will be tested
during the fall semester, at a rate of 10 to 20 per day, and one-quarter
will be randomly tested at other times of year, Schmidt said. St.
Patrick's is passing on the $60 cost of the drug test to students' families,
he added, although he is looking for donors to cover some of the costs.
The University of Michigan's
Monitoring the Future annual surveys of teen drug use have shown no difference
in use between schools that drug test and those that don't.
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