Drug Testing Student Athletes Essay

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We need to drug test high school student athletes. Randomly drug testing student athletes in schools is a zero tolerance policy. The problem with this is drug testing student athletes is so coaches and guardians know their athlete is using. Letting students know when they’re getting tested is a problem because they can prepare. If we surprise drug test athletes the coaches and guardians will know for sure if their athlete is using. Around 74% of student athletes abuse and are not usually caught, this is a problem because students are doing anything and everything they can do get high.
Student athletes should be drug tested for the safety of the athletes. The safety of students is a concern. Athletes are finding new ways to take and use drugs without getting caught. Taylor Hooton was a young baseball player in Texas who used and didn’t get caught and ended up dying from trying to quit. Taylors coach told him he needed to get bigger and instead of doing it the right way and going to the gym and eating right, he decided he needed a quick solution and took steroids. Taylor’s parents noticed that Taylor was indeed getting bigger, but thought he was just going to the gym and doing it the right way. His parents had no idea. He said something to his best friend about trying …show more content…

Some parents say “kids will be kids”. But the truth of it is, all kids are guilty until proven innocent. The athletes prove their innocence by passing a drug test. Vernonia school district v acton, states student drug testing only in situations where the individual student is suspected, or where a particular group of students is suspected. I would say if the drug tests are random then you aren't profiling anyone or any group of people. If you're randomly drug testing athletes for their safety and their peers then you aren't suspecting anything, you're just doing what needs to be done for the team and the

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