Oconee County, GA Politics

Dems: Drug Testing For Welfare Unconstitutional

The Oconee County Board of Education taught their high school students today it does not pay as far as driving to school or taking part in after school athletics as far as doing drugs and alcohol is concerned. I can't imagine it has changed all that much since I went to school, but kids are getting blitzed on booze and buds every day. Some will get caught, others will be merely inconvenienced. All of them have suffered irreparable harm to their civil liberties.

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...