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Pee First, Ask Questions Later

By Peter Cassidy

In the past decade, a veritable Kindergulag has been erected around schoolchildren, making them subject to arbitrary curfews, physical searches, psychological profiling schemes and—in the latest institutionalized indignity—random, suspicion-less, warrant-less drug testing for just about any kid who wants to pursue extracurricular interests. Last summer, the Supreme Court gave carte blanche to school districts that want to impose drug testing on… return to article

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    And the USA calls itself the world’s greatest democracy…I pity your kids…sound more like Nazi Germany to me.

    New Zealand (Aotearoa) Posted by kath on Sep 4, 2003 at 2:24 AM

    ill start a riot at school before i let them drug test me

    United States Posted by elly on Dec 28, 2003 at 3:15 AM
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