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September 7, 2011, 03:42 PM | #76 |
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If we are describing a principal who is testing for alcohol to get into a dance as a "totalitarian encroachment", I believe we have wandered into a pastiche of reasonable concerns about civil liberties.
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September 7, 2011, 04:24 PM | #77 |
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But the delima was always there. What else could it have been? In this country we are assumed innocent until proven guilty. So why should I have to take a test to prove I'm innocent. That in itself makes it very wrong. It seems so wrong to me that I can't believe the ones who are teaching our children can't see what their actually doing.
AND I agree, we have wondered into a hodge podge of reasonable concerns about civil liberties. I say to you brotherin, he has seen the light. |
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What would cause this school system to suspect every child of committing a crime?
Ain't they ever learned to look for the signs of impairment as a way to determine who is "suspicious"? Don't they know that he kids can get in sober and drink from hip flasks all night while in the gymnasium? Brent |
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Well ofcourse they use this as a deterrent to keep the students from getting drunk and unruly and destructive... if a teacher were to try to physically restrain an unruly student someone would have the ACLU on speed-dial.
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When I was a student, this would have been a deterrent to my attendance.
Hmm, let's see.... how many disciplinary infractions did I have at my high school. Ummmm.... oh, yeah, none. National Honor Society, check. Advanced Placement, check. Gifted classes, check. Wrestling team, check. Florida Academic Scholar, check. National Merit Scholar, check. And I would have boycotted any event that would require me to submit to a breathalyzer, even though I very rarely drank, and never did at school functions or when driving. I'd have been offended by the implication that I had to prove my "innocence" in order to attend. I'd have been angered by the arrogance of those who felt that, as a sixteen or seventeen year old, I should not expect any 4th Amendment protections. And I'd probably have found some way to make the administration feel my irritation - in the sense of letters to the editor, complaints to the ACLU, etc. My parents, who were always active in the PTA (and who raised not only one kid who didn't get into trouble, and who was an achiever, but two - actually, my little sister is an associate VP at Rutgers these days....) would have raised a hue and cry over the breathalyzer plan, too. And, FWIW, my mother was old school Sicilian - she was NOT the "my child can do no wrong" type. She was the "if they cause problems, let us know, and they will NOT be repeated" type. Somehow, none of our teachers ever needed to report anything to Mom. When dealing with my godson, I never used threats, searches, etc. I'd just tell him what I expected of him, or, when possible, lead by example. His parents had the same approach. He's 19 now, attends WVU, and he opens doors at restaurants for old people and all that. He's a full-time student with a part-time job, attending on a student loan with no co-signer (plus a partial scholarship). Again, kids will live up to your expectations, or else they will live down to them. Breathalyzers, zero tolerance policies, and their ilk are "feel-good" measures, instituted by the incompetent or lazy who do not want to actually put in the effort to motivate good behavior or to recognize the signs of impending trouble. |
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And wouldn't said school have a "resource officer"? Code word for cop on premises... Unlike my disdain for private business operators who require I prepay for gas 'cuz some steal the gas, we are dealing with a school. And this school shouldn't treat them as if they are all drunkards. Do they also go thru wallets and purses looking for counterfeit cash or weapons? Brent |
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When I was that age I felt that every cop and teacher regarded me with suspicion. They were often correct.
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I graduated from HS in 2009. We had to blow into a "breathalizer"(it was more like a pass or fail device it showes no BAC on it just a red or green light) before we went into any school dance. The way I see it if you arent doing anything illegal you dont have to worry. If you dont want to blow into one dont go to the dance! Simple as that! Our school did it because 2 years before I graduated 4 kids got killed in a car accident while leaving the prom because they were drunk. The school board then adopted the new breathalizer policy. If you blow into it and fail your parents are called and you are sent home(no minor or other charges are filed). Seems to me some parents should be thanking the school board instead of freaking out about it. Yeah little Johnny might be an angel at home but how do you know he doesnt go over to bobby's house and drink it up before prom? The parents of the kids killed thought their kids didnt drink but they were proved wrong. They said they wished the school board had this policy in affect before their children were taken from them. Call it "infringement" or "a violation of personal rights" but mom and dad always called it "insurance" and so did I.
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Thank you Mleake. I agree totally with your underlying philosophy. We are Americans and one thing that makes America the best place in the world to live is our right to succeed or fail and live with the consequences.
I lived in Canada for several years and was forced to endure what is euphemistically called "compliance checks." That is an action whereby police can (and do) stop people walking on sidewalks and really DO ask "ID please." They are checking for wants and warrants simply because (in my case I asked) one is wearing a Harley jacket outside at 3am. I say live and let live and if a student gets unruly at a dance kick him or her out, maybe call the parents to pick up their kid, regardless of whether they were unruly due to booze or any other factor. Teach the ethic of consequence rather than mindless compliance with authority. Our 2A came about specifically to resist authority gone bad. So did the 1st Amendment. Better that kids learn about consequences than learn subservience.
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I remember when my old high school, without notice, put up metal detectors and a local LEO just inside the entrance doors .
The amount knives found outside on the campus grounds that first day was enough to completely fill a shoe box. The most concerning was that one gun was found in the bushes. Things have changed since I went there.
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Why not have them tested upon leaving and before getting in the car instead? They could pass the test, then drink out of the flask in their pants.
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I have solved the problem. The technology now exsists (and has been used) to place braclets or a chip under the skin. We can do this to everyone at birth and now know everyplace everyone is at with the built in gps, what they have consumed, be it alcohol, drugs, or too much Star Bucks. Even if their having extra marital sex I'll bet. (it is illegal). The police can automatically get a radio signal you've drank too much and pick you up later.
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Seems quite a few of our members like the vestiges of a police state, except when it comes to gun control. I'll go further and say some folks here seem to want to live in Stepford.
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After reading many posts, I am more convinced of the wisdom and necessity of the test. Kids want to be like others and pretend they are adults, but they aren't. Most adults cannot handle alcohol, although all claim they can. Parents won't teach them so for such parties the schools should check for safety, and to keep order.
Kids should not be drinking at that age, but they do. The tests makes a lot of sense. Maybe there is some hope for the schools yet. And yes I could have passed the test, as I did not and do not drink. Neither did my buddies. Jerry
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Here's what the 4th Amendment says: “ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Notice the requirements for "describing the place....persons or things...." To publicly announce, in advance, that everyone one ("the persons") entering the dance ("the place") will be tested for alcohol ("the things") seems to comply with both the letter and intent of this amendment. No one is forcing either the high schoolers or travelers to be tested/screened. It is a condition for entry, but entry is completely voluntary. |
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Here's the problem, as I see it.
If you hold to the original public meaning of what the 1A or 2A meant back in times of the founding, then you also need to hold that same view of the 4A. Quite simply, the 4A is dead, as most everything that is allowed today would have been unreasonable, and hence unlawful, back in the day.... |
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^^Hence the reason for my earlier post about Ben Franklin looking down on us and being....Speechless.
In Columbus,Ohio, just this morning, two highschool students, while at school got into a fight. The end result was that one student cut the others throat with a knife. All day long, parents have blasted the media about how this student got in the school with a knife in the first place. It just makes me wonder how many of these same parents would be throwing a fit if the kids were forced to go through metal detectors as they entered the school. |
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Where I went to HS we had to get drug tested to drive to school with our own cars. We had to pay for a parking pass and driving to school was a "privilege". Drug testing was a must to participate in anything school related, choir, chess club, football, math club, anything.
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Being intoxicated in public is a crime. Being a minor in possession is a crime. Driving while being intoxicated is a crime. Having passengers in your car while you drive it under the influence is a crime. And seeing 4 or 6 empty desks on Monday morning at the start of class, after a car gets wrapped around a telephone pole, is even worse.
The numbers of kids today who are out of control is staggering. It bears no relation at all with our rites of passage in our youth. Give your kid a cell camera and tell him to show you. |
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