TEST ALL ASPIRING TEACHERS FOR DRUGS: LAWMAKER

A Capitol legislator wants to make sure teachers are fit to take the moral
high ground, instead of getting high on drugs.

Provincial Board (PB) Member Juan Bolo, who chairs the committee on
education, is urging the Department of Education (DepEd) to subject
applicants for teaching positions to mandatory drug tests.

"Teachers are considered our children's second parents while they are in
school, where they are calculated to spend more than the amount of time
they stay in our homes.

They should possess the moral ascendancy and unquestionable integrity such
that we can entrust the lives of our children to them," Bolo said in his
proposed resolution.