DRUG SWEEPS OMINOUS

Three drug sweeps in three months? Within three months of this school
year, Harry D. Jacobs High School has had too many drug sweeps, not
to mention two of them were in the same week, and one the week previous.

While students and teachers had shelter-in-place lockdowns during
class time with the blinds and doors closed, police and their search
dogs swept through lockers, vehicles and personal belongings.

As students were taking this as a joke and messing around, they don't
realize what danger can come in the school.

Yes, in some cases it is normal for high schools to have drug sweeps
every once in a while.

But when it gets to the point where we have two in one week, that
must mean that serious issues are going on in the school with certain students.

Several students were called down recently after the drug sweep to
discuss it, but some were pledged not guilty of anything. Some
students were concerned about why there were so many sweeps in two
weeks, and what exactly was happening.

Seeing and hearing about how many teenagers actually do drugs is upsetting.

Not only does it make teens look bad, but it makes the school look
bad, and gives the school a new name.

It's important to have drug sweeps to warn teenagers to stop, but
having this many shows how many people actually think about and do drugs.

Courtney Desmond

Jacobs High School student

Algonquin