IF TEACHERS ARE TESTED, OTHERS SHOULD BE, TOO

It seems that the state administration is helping to perpetuate the
low status of teachers in our society. They claim that the
drug-testing of teachers is necessary to protect children from "poor
judgment" and other effects of drug use, but they do not propose the
same thing for pediatricians, nor family court lawyers and judges, not
to mention the Department of Education administration and the state
administration itself, whose "good judgment" affects far more children
than any teacher.

You cannot treat teachers with such disrespect then expect to attract
and keep the best and brightest to educate our keiki.

Robin Uyeshiro,

Kailua