SCHOOL SEARCHES RIPE FOR ABUSE

Major kudos for your outstanding editorial: "Bad civics lessons for teens,
society" (4-24-05).

When I was in school and we had an enemy who had done us wrong, we usually
"settled the score" with a fist fight. It looks like the drug-war
cheerleaders have given today's students a much easier way to "settle the
score."

All they need to do is to sprinkle some ground-up marijuana onto the food
of their enemy and the school drug tests will do the rest. Of course their
enemy will proclaim: "But I never ..."

So instead of a scholarship at the state university, their enemy can look
forward to a not-so-rewarding career at the local car wash.

Of course, I must be the first and only person to think of this.

Kirk Muse

Mesa, Ariz. (formerly of Freeport)