Students at Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Mo., will have to face an extra kind of test in the 2013-14 school year. They'll be forced to supply strands of hair for mandatory drug tests to detect whether they've used marijuana, cocaine, and several other drugs. Greg Harkness, the private school's principal, said the random tests are intended to help pupils who have made "bad decisions." Students who test positive for drugs will have 90 days to get clean, and test results will be destroyed upon graduation. The scheme has support from students and parents, and is perfectly within the law — though the Fourth Amendment would prohibit similar tests in public schools. [Source]
There is a lot of scum out there in certain public schools. Some kids have no chance in these schools. The private schools are sometimes their only route. The parents and school board of these private schools want to keep out the bad elements. That's why they pay the extra money in the first place.
