Drugs-4th Amendement

           School required drug testing is an invasion of personal privacy, no question to it. The school has no business in the testing of students whether it is a matter of participating in school activities, sports, or just random tests to keep drug use down in schools. It is wrong to get into students' business unless it is a matter of performance enhancement in sports or other matters of academic dishonesty.
            It really boils down to it not being any of the school's business to get into a student's personal affairs outside of school. There is always a percentage of kids who will do drugs. Threatening them with drug testing is not going to deter them from doing the actual drugs, but it is going to deter them from participating in school functions. If anything permitting students who use drugs to join clubs and sports may offer a distraction from the problem, but if they are banned by the school after "dropping dirty" on a drug test then they are more likely to retreat from school sponsored things and continue using drugs. Scaring kids with threats of drug testing and punishments that they can't control by, say, not being on drugs during activities and school will cause drugs and alcohol to be driven more underground and it will become a more dangerous activity. The danger will not, however, cause kids to stop what they are doing. If the school system backed off then the fear and the secrecy would also lessen.
       Parents should be responsible for their kids' hypothetical drug use. The school, especially public schools, are not parents. During school hours schools are granted a limited amount of parenthood so if a student shows up high then the school has a right to do something about it if there is reasonable cause to suspect a student is on drugs. If there is no suspicion that an individual is on drugs then there is no reason to drug test and entire population of people who should be assumed innocent until the school is given a reason to believe differently. If parents are worried about their own children they can go to Walmart and buy a package full of drug tests to use at home.
       I really don't care about privacy issues of 'oh no I have to pee in a cup while someone watches/listens!!!!' That honestly doesn't concern me because there is too much proof against a student's right to privacy as we have communal locker room etc. What does concern me is that the school has to hire this person who is similar to a probational officer. Not only does this person have to be hired, but this is a humiliating and uncomfortable position for an innocent or guilty child. Personally, if I had to be in that situation I would feel like a criminal, I would feel ashamed to be in that position, and I would feel angry that I had to be subjected to something that people on probation have to go through. This is emotionally damaging to an impressionable student. It leaves scar in the student's view on justice and the fairness of the school system and the constitution. A person is innocent until proving guilty, but this is a method of proving innocence after being assumed guilty. It's just wrong.
      Drug testing in schools is just wrong and a waste of money and time.