Drug Testing

WHERE WOULD IT ALL STOP?

A big Amen to your editorial advocating rejecting the random drug testing
being considered for students in Marshfield engaged in extracurricular
activities, even though school authorities have no reason to believe the
student is taking illegal drugs (May 20 Our View, "Say no to suspicionless
drug test").

If this invasion of a student's privacy is adopted, the next step will be
to try to randomly test all students for illegal drug usage even though
there is no reason to believe they have broken the law.

By logical extension, will the next step be random testing of anyone the
government feels might be using illegal drugs?

This is a terrible policy and will only lead us down the road to a
totalitarian state. The school board should reject this Orwellian proposal.

Don and Linda Harmening,

Strafford