DRUG POLICY RAISES QUESTIONS

Editor,

I have a few questions concerning the current school drug policy and the
school board.

1. Are all the school board members in favor of the policy?

2. How was the policy formulated?

3. Who picked the committee members and how many were there?

4. Who was in charge of the committee, and how many meetings were there?

5. Who represented the board, and did the board representative attend all
the meetings?

6. Did any other board members attend these meetings?

7. When was the policy passed by committee and when was the policy given to
the school board?

8. When did the school board adopt the policy.

9. Why haven't the drug test already started?

10. Was the 13 pages of amendments that Susan Puckett submitted a means of
stalling the policy?

11. How was the drug testing company picked and why was the selected company
picked?

12. Is it true that school board rejected a well known company that had an
impeccable record of testing students only to accept a no name company that
had never done this kind of testing?

13. Was the price of selected company better than the quality of rejected
company?

14. Was the school board vote unanimous in selecting the company?

15. Who was selected to be in charge of the tests?

16. Shouldn't it be a policy to not inform students when the test will be
done?

17. How is it that the students have know for weeks when the tests will
begin?

18. Is this a ploy for the students to "clean" out before the tests.

19. Will "blocker" tests be performed on students. Blockers are agents that
are taken orally to hide a positive test result.

Being that part of my tax dollars goes to this school, I feel that I and
others have the right to ask these questions and to have them answered
honestly.

Mike Dowdy

Hartselle