- Target:
- High School sports teams
- Region:
- United States of America
Poway High School and many other schools have a serious drug problem with our students. One way to help control it is too establish boundaries. Playing sports at any high school should be a privilege.
We have set rules on maintaining good grades to be able to remain on a team and with that comes report cards to keep that rule in place. We also ask our students to sign a sports contract to comply with being drug free but we have no system in place making sure that contract is upheld.
Mandatory drug testing through out the season in each sport is necessary to insure our athletes are remaining drug free and with that comes severe consequences for athletes who are not upholding that contract.
We, the undersigned, call on the PUSD and all other school districts to put mandatory random drug testing in place for all sports. Drug testing must be performed multiple times through out the season.
No player, parent or coach should be aware of when and where testing is to take place before hand. Testing should be done at random times to insure accurate results. Any student that does not pass their drug test (first offense) is banned from playing sports the remainder of the school year.
The second offense, the student would be banned from playing sports the remainder of his/her high school career.
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The Drug free sports in our schools petition to High School sports teams was written by Tiffany Gunter and is in the category Education at GoPetition.