Drug Testing in Schools

Schools have strict policies about drugs. This is completely understandable. I know that some school do random drug testing on any of their students that participate in school activities to make sure they are drug free and are not using any performance enhancers. The way I feel about this is, you should have a reason to suspect the person of drug use before you can just drug test them. Also, many of the high school students that do take drugs aren’t in any clubs or sports because they are doing instead. I don’t think its fair to only test those students are showing an interest in after school activities. If your going to test anyone at the school then everyone should be acceptable to the drug testing. I feel like this could prevent many kids from doing drugs or continuing drugs but this could also backfire at the school. If many of the kids on sports are doing drugs and they rather keep doing drugs than continue their sport, then we could loose a lot of athletes. Also many high school athletes are allegeable to get scholarships for their athletic ability. If they get caught with a drug/drugs in their system and are therefore not allowed to continue in their sport I don’t think its worth risking their future over a silly mistake they made as a teenager. I think the schools really need to weigh out the pros and cons before they start doing something this drastic.