A private school in east Georgia intends to start drug-testing its oldest students.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports that Brookstone School in Columbus recently announced that the drug-testing of students in grades 8-12 will be voluntary next school year - and then mandatory in succeeding years.
Brookstone plans to use students' hair samples which are sent to Psychemedics Corp. to conduct the testing, the newspaper reported. The Massachusetts-based company would then provide test results within a few days.
Psychemedics automatically will test Brookstone students for 18 types of drugs. Alcohol isn't among them, but parents and guardians may request their child's test to include alcohol screening, the newspaper reported.
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6 comments:
If they did that in our public schools and they kicked out those found to be positive for drugs,there wouldn't be many students left.
Nice that they gave a year's grace so that some could clean their act up before the 2019-2020 school year.
Soon to be a private school with no students. I really can't believe they would put themselves out of business that way.
3:52 Many exclusive private schools such as Brookstone have been doing this for close to 20 years now that I know of without any going out of business. Quite the opposite, many have waiting lists.
Forgot to add just like all exclusive private schools have been fortresses for decades now with not only fences but armed guards. The democrats refuse to do this because they say it would make the students feel like they are in prison and that would traumatize them.
Urine samples Next !!
Breath controlled cars / must have on car to park there !!
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