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Old September 6, 2011, 11:10 AM   #36
zukiphile
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Originally Posted by MLeake
zukiphile, I'd put it to you that a school or school board deciding, independently of parental inputs, ...
Do we know that this was independent of parental input?

In my village, the PTA and school board work together pretty closely.

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Originally Posted by MLeake
... to institute mass breathalyzing is a massive overreach, ...
What is being overreached? Does a minor have a right to attend an evening school function after drinking? I don't believe so.

Does the minor have a right of privacy comparable to that of an adult? I don't think you would want your child to attend a school in which enforcement of drug and weapon policies were limited by the sort of restrictions you and I have when dealing with a PO.

I believe there is a universe of dangers against which protection is likely to reflect reasonable parental anxieties.

If you and I had to pass a breathalizer test before entering a city council meeting, that would be a very different circumstance, in that it would be adults and government.
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