Cause and effect: Oconee public schools contemplate drug testing while Athens Academy students get popped for pot

We could probably bust almost every high school kid in home school, public school or private school for some kind of infraction against society, be it smoking pot, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, performing oral sex, masturbation, shoplifting, jaywalking, cursing on Sundays, spitting, speeding or cheating on tests. That much being written, I am certainly not condoning illegal activity or behavior but am fully cognizant that such behavior exists and I abhor attempting to legislate morality.

I do not take joy in the latest problems of the Broun family, nor do I pass judgment on them. I can only hope for their healing. But let no one mistake what is going on in our schools as a reason to reveal every secret and every sex position our kids are going to be performing any way regardless of what we do.

So the Oconee School Board once again wants to test all the athletes and kids who drives to school for drugs? OK, once again they will find a few kids who take a few puffs who probably should not be on the road. But again, at what price? Our liberties erode every day in many different ways but right now I do not think it would be prudent, practical or economical for testing every kid who gets behind the wheel driving to our schools. I do not like the Sheriff taking the drug dogs through the parking lot or hallways or arresting kids for pocket knives in the glove compartment of the family automobile. But I understand why they are doing it, despite the lack of civil liberty for those who are 18 or younger in Oconee County.