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by Karl Priest

The state of Hawaii is currently embroiled in a debate over random drug testing for teachers.  The teacher union has reneged upon a contract that included a pay raise and the drug test.  Despite a six month period where six educators were arrested for drug offenses, the union claims there is no drug problem with teachers.  The Hawaii Labor Relations Board will rule on the matter.

Nationwide, approximately a half dozen school districts allow for random drug testing for teachers.

West Virginia may be the site of where the issue will be settled via the federal court system.  Ultimately, it is likely the U. S. Supreme Court will determine if teachers may be required to submit to what the unions call "suspicionless" drug tests.

On December 29, 2008 a federal judge blocked West Virginia's largest school district, Kanawha County, from implementing random drug testing for teachers.  The ruling was in the form of a temporary injunction and the school board plans to "pursue this to the end."  

"We've got a problem", said long time Kanawha County School Board member Pete thaw.  Other board members, the public, and most individual teachers know there is a problem.  The only ones who do not see the elephant in the room are teacher union leaders and the Anti Christian Liberties Union (ACLU).  Neither group is known for their keen moral eyesight. 

Teacher unions and the ACLU cried that Constitutional rights would be violated by random drug testing.  It is ironic that both groups cannot see that evolution is an "inverted-fantasy religion" taught in the public schools in violation of the First Amendment and that Kanawha County schools actively established a sect of the Hindu religion by allowing Yogaism into the schools.

Thaw cited eight instances of teacher drug use last year.  How many instances would the teacher unions and the ACLU need to qualify as a problem?  How about just one incident like that in November 2008 when a female Florida elementary teacher was arrested for selling heroin and crack cocaine?  Or, the December Wisconsin incident of a 25 year veteran high school teacher who not only sold drugs, but hosted drug parties for former students?  Maybe the July conviction of a special education teacher who sold drugs to her current students at school will be a Road to Damascus experience for the teacher unions and ACLU. 

Even if all teachers are drug free, the schools have serious drug problems with students. Parents should ask their local middle or high school to show them there discipline records.  Also, there is plenty of proof that the "Bible Belt" state of West Virginia has serious drug problems in the public schools.  See my website (www.insectman.us/exodus-mandate-wv) under the "WV News" section for 2008.

Although the drug problem is serious enough, there is a much more important issue of addiction that parents need to face.  That is the addiction to the failed and dangerous public schools themselves.  People who would not allow the government to cloth, house, or feed their children succumb to the opiate of a "free" education" and willingly allow the government to shape their children's minds.

Parents would never allow their children to go into a house where there is 100% certainty the children will experience exposure to illegal drug use.  Yet, with judgment impaired due to public school addiction, these same parents allow their precious children into public school buildings where those things are certain to happen. 

As this lawsuit runs its course, no matter which side wins, the public schools will remain a narcotic that is seriously impairing our nation.

Parents should make a New Year's resolution to attain the sobriety of home and truly Christian education.

Published January 7, 2009