Testing, Searches

STUDENTS HAVE RIGHT TO DRUG-FREE EDUCATION

Volcanic Ash was spot on (Oct. 10) and Richard S. Miller (Oct. 12)
missed the target way to the left.

The teacher drug tests and student searches are not erosions of our
students' freedoms. They are a return to the safe education system
that we had before the ultra-liberals took control of the education
system in the '70s.

Our students' right to an education free of fear, alcohol and drugs
is as paramount as my right to safe air travel or automobile travel
free of drunken drivers.

One only needs to look at the recent school shooting in Cleveland,
Ohio, a student's arsenal discovered in Norristown, Penn., and the 12
ice-related arrests on Kaua'i to acknowledge the real threat to the
liberty and safety they deserve.

The two drug policies, one established based upon employment
contract, guarantee security while ensuring equal rights for all.

Carl L. Jacobs

'Aiea