I noticed steam coming out of Daryl Cobranchi's ears today as he reported on more public-school drug-testing lunacy, this time mentioned in the Boston Globe:
So, to catch the 1.76% of student-athletes who were smoking and the 0.29% who were using illegal drugs, the school district subjected the other 97.9% to an invasive, embarassing, useless test. This testing craze started out with the "drug problem" among student-athletes. Then we started sliding downhill to testing students participating in competitive inter-scholastic events (like "choir"). This morphed into testing students who needed to drive to school. And now the slope carries us down to testing nearly everybody for pretty much any damn thing the schools decide to test for. Your tax dollars at work (and another good reason to HS [homeschool]).
I agree with Daryl 100%. In fact, this reminded me that one of my first ever posts was in disagreement with Jonah Goldberg of the National Review about school drug testing - Jonah thinks such tests are useful and fair, and I disagree on both counts.