Our Initial Goal Is Voluntary Compliance

Our Initial Goal Is Voluntary Compliance June 10, 2014

Middle school edition!

After Michael and Melinda May’s daughter was drug-tested five times in three years at Susquenita Middle School, they refused to sign a permission slip allowing it to happen again.

Leila May was drug-tested once during her fifth grade year, once in sixth grade and three times as a seventh grader because Susquenita School District randomly tests students in grades five through 12 who participate in extracurricular activities and apply for parking permits.

Without the permission slip signed, Leila was unable to participate in the National Junior Honor Society during her eighth-grade year, which ended last week. But Melinda May said that’s what had to happen to ensure the 14-year-old wouldn’t have to face another “embarrassing” urine test. All of Leila’s tests came back negative, she said.

more (via Walter Olson)

 


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