I was recently reading an article in Time Magazine, about testing teachers randomly for drug use. It made some very good points about the topic, which I realize is the job of the journalist but I would like to talk about it a bit.
Money is always an issue in today's world, and 37,000 dollars is a good chunk of change. But a question you have to ask is: Is it worth it to protect your kids? Some people would say no, who obviously don't have kids, or use drugs themselves. These teachers are huge influences on your kids. Let's make a conservative estimate. Say each teacher in America comes into contact with with 25 kids a day. Four percent of all teachers in the U.S. reported using drugs. Now there are a lot of teachers in the U.S. and multiply that by twenty-five and you have a lot of kids who have potentially learned more than the curriculum intended.
Is it worth it to spend 37,000 dollars to reduce that number? Hell yea it is! But, maybe random isn't the best way to go about it. Maybe we should give full discretion to principals to drug test any teacher that they might think has been indulging. This was suggested in the article but only with probable cause. Why just that? Let the teachers sweat thinking that their boss might tell them at any minute to go to the bathroom, the psychological factor seems to be more effective than just random.
I fear money, as usual will drive this endeavor into the ground. It's a shame we have to put a price tag on our kids and ultimately our FUTURE because of our own greed. Just add it to the list of things wrong with the world, and prepare for your demise.
3 comments:
do you really think that a teacher doing drugs will some how by osmosis influence a student to do the same?
You may have good reasons for your argument, but consider what you're saying in the middle of this post:
First: "Is it worth it to protect your kids?"
From what, exactly?
And just after that: "Some people would say no, who obviously don't have kids, or use drugs themselves."
So you're saying there's NO other reasonable reason to disagree with you?
To Fred- you can't think that if a teacher comes into contact with that amount of kids that not one of them is going to know what they're up to or know that Mr. Soandso does something and so it's ok for me to do it to. That is how the minds of some people work. They see, they do.
To Mr. Ayers- I should have adressed the arguments against me is what I think you're trying to say and I'll keep that in mind next time I do something like this.
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