FOCUS ON IMPROVING SCHOOLS, NOT LEGAL FIGHT

Drug Testing

Regarding the continued whining by numerous public school teachers
regarding drug testing, and its supposed violation of their
constitutional rights, the Supreme Court has ruled that such testing
is legal.

Millions of federal government, state and commercial enterprise
employees throughout the United States are subject to testing, and
it's no big deal. Now the teachers union is talking about bringing a
lawsuit to stop the testing, money which could be much better spent on
teachers' benefits. I only wish that those who are so adamantly
opposed to drug testing would devote a similar effort to bring our
public schools up to No Child Left Behind standards, and maybe the
Hawai'i public school system wouldn't be in the shape it's in now.

CRAIG MEYERS

'Aiea