Student Athletes Drug Testing Essay

Drug Testing High School Student Athletes

A superintendent at a lower Michigan school system has a different look on how students can participate in sports. To become an athlete at Burr Oak High School you must have a passing grade and complete a drug test screening. Students need be drug tested in every sport because using drugs while in a sport is cheating the student athlete’s team and the opposing team. It also affects the student’s future as a working adult in the real world. About 67 percent of full time/ part time adult employees participate in illegal drugs. Starting drug testing in High School could slash that number in the future, creating a drug free, safe work environment. Student athletes are the group with the most activity in drug use, therefore testing the athletes could minimize where most drug use is and start a chain reaction in other groups of students. Many schools are thinking about taking the right step today of drug testing their student athletes.

One reason for drug testing is that it’s an unfair advantage for the team the students are playing for and the opposing team. Using performance enhancing drugs to makes student athletes look better gives a false advertisement to coaches, teammates, and even college recruiter. Drug use is also unsportsmanlike conduct. They are also creating a false advantage for

The Constitution prohibits “unreasonable” searches, so if staff and coaches do not believe for sure that a student athlete is using drugs, they should not be able to test them. Also if a person is seen to be positive in a test, they will need to explain and it can be embarrassing and can be judged by other classmates, even if you have an actual medical condition that requires it. Many people say that drug testing invades your privacy and your rights as a United States citizen, but now there are new testing that involves using student 's