Because the ages of these addicts are getting younger and younger, and now, something needed to be done! From the Front Page Sections, translated…
The New-Age Drugs are packed in coffee or milk tea satchels, or in the forms of packaged candy bars, and, it might get the students to ingest them accidentally; in order to prevent the damages caused by the illegal substances, the man in charge of Changwha County made the announcements of starting in the semester of fall of 2017, there would be urine tests given to students in the middle and elementary school years, so long as the parents and the guardians signed off on the matter first, to help students stay away from the illegal substances.
The discussions of school administered urine tests for illegal substances had been discussed for many years on end, but, it wasn’t implemented, because of the legalities of the matter. The office manager of Changwha Department of Education, Deng stated, that there’s the addendum of “specific individuals giving urine samples at random”, in recent years, there’s another specification of individuals being added, so long as the schools believed it to be necessary, then, after getting the consent from the parents or legal guardians, the urine tests can be performed.
He’d stated, that the county government found a balance between legislature and human rights, hoped that the parents would consent, to find the problems earlier on, so counsel and treatment can be given.
“Most parents are onboard about the urine tests to protect the children,” the principal of the Chang-Xing Middle School in Changwha, Chiang stated, there were parents who are at their wits ends on how their children are getting in with the wrong crowds, that they couldn’t make sure their young don’t run with the wrong crowds, worried that the children may start abusing illegal substances, and hoped the schools could help test them, and, the schools would counsel the students to get their lives on track, keeping their cases secret.
A high school student in Changwha was suspected of using drugs, and the school instructor asked him to give an urine sample, the parents were displeased about it, and stated that they’re going to sue the schools; there are schools that worried that this large-scale urine test program being pushed forth by the local government would cause the parents to get angry, that it would, have a countereffect on the original purpose. And, some of the schools believed, that compared to the number of dropouts abusing, the students in school wouldn’t normally be abusing the substances, that the urine tests would be counter effective.
A parent, Chen in Changwha stated, that if the urine tests are going to be implemented, then, everybody in the school should get tested, disregarding the grades, the school performances, or the behaviors, like how the scheduled biannual health exams conducted at the nurse’s office, that way, the students won’t feel they’re being zoomed in on.
“Why are they treating the students like suspects?”, a high school student, Lin from Changwha High School stated, he didn’t like that he wasn’t trusted by the school officials, and the good will of enlarging the scale of the urine tests made a lot of teens upset, even if the students aren’t abusing the illegal substances, they’re, all, against this policy being set forth.
This, is the idea, that some legislator came up with, to KEEP the illegal substances out of the schools, and, it would be, very difficult, to implement, because the targets are teens, and, young people tend to take things too personally, even when they’re not directed toward them individually, and so, although this is a workable idea, it would be, quite difficult, to get ALL the schools to implement this policy of drug-prevention.
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