BANNING RANDOM DRUG SEARCHES AT SCHOOLS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE

I think by far that my favourite class right now is law. Some of the
debates and the things that you hear about in that class are
completely shocking. It's also where I came up with the idea for this
week's column.

During class we were talking about how it is now illegal for police to
just do a random drug search in schools with the drug dogs.
Personally, I think that is the stupidest thing that you could ever
do.

First of all, schools are private property and if you're caught with
drugs, you can be charged.

Second, if you warn people the week before a drug test, how many
people do you think will actually get caught?

Now of course I can see why you wouldn't see the point in doing a
random drug search without probable cause, but if you stop people from
bringing it to school then isn't it worth it?

What you do in your spare time is completely your choice, but bringing
drugs to school is completely stupid.

First of all you're not allowed to have it, and second of all in the
middle of a public school is not the best place to carry an illegal
substance.

Then when people get caught, they whine and they cry and they say that
it's a breach of their rights.

Well, duh.

I'm sorry if you are bringing stuff like that in a public place, where
there are so many places to get caught then it's completely your fault
if you do get busted.

Another thing that I really don't get is people going off at lunch to
get high. I mean of course it's a personal choice and all that, but
saying that it actually makes you understand math better is not
actually the best way to explain it.

Of course you understand things better, you think that you can count
backwards to 57 from purple. The world makes sense with that kind of
logic.

Now of course it's a personal choice, not one that I can actually say
that I would condone, but a personal choice nonetheless. But to stop
random drug checks at schools because it "violates rights" or the dogs
scare people is stupid. If you're willing to bring those things in a
place where you know you are liable to be caught, then they should be
allowed to search randomly.

When enough people finally realize that maybe they shouldn't actually
bring things in because they can and would be charged maybe there
won't be such a problem.

Kaileigh Russell is a Grade 11 student at O'Gorman High School.