Should student athletes be required to take drug tests? |
I think athletes should be drug tested to keep performance enhancing drugs out of sports.
A person that takes performance enhancing drugs should not be able to play sports. If they want to illeglly make themselves better then that is their choice. Also if they wish to ruin their lives and get addicted to drugs that is their choice. That is my opinion according to me.
Posted by: Anonymousyes they should
All athletes should be required to take a drug test. Drugs are prohibited for use to athletes. Playing sports is a privilege. Using drugs is a violation of the athletic program. Students should be tested for all drugs in there system. That's why I think athletes should be required to take a drug test before playing a sport.
Posted by: AnonymousI say yes!!!
If a student is really interested in that sport he or she will try to maintain being healthy. Drugs are very dangerous and if the student is playing a sport this may cause them to stop trying hard. Also over the years drugs can affect your immune and you skeletal system. An example of a drug that does this is steroids. Many professional football players that are now old have many health problems due to the drugs that they took when they were young. Many get brain injuries and some have died. Its not fair for a student to waste his or her life like many of these professional athletes. Staying away from drugs is just the best way, and getting drug tested is only going to help student athletes! (:
Posted by: AnonymousCAJ- Athletics are privileges and drugs are illegal
Yes. Coming from a small school, sports were a big deal. Being an athlete and part of a team is considered a privilege, you choose to join that sport or not. By doing drugs tests, individuals that really want to participate in the sport will either choose drugs or the games! Maybe if this in enforced it will lower the drug use statistics.
Posted by: AnonymousYes, athletes should be tested for drugs.
I was a high school football player, and we knew which kids were doing drugs on the team and they did nothing but hurt the team. They were constantly making mistakes such as false starts, running the wrong way during a play, missing blocks, etc. They do drug tests in the real world, for professional sports to regular jobs. If they get busted in high school maybe they'll learn their mistake before it costs them in the real world.
Posted by: AnonymousYes they should
I think school athletes need to be drug tested because it will make games so much fair and kids will be more into the game and not all messed up on drugs also it will keep kids out of harms way! Parents may not like it but if your not hiding anything whats so bad about taking one.
Posted by: AnonymousYes, athletes should have to take a drug test.
I think that all athletes should have to take a drug test if they win a game. The reason I think that
they should is because it is not fair for the athletes who do not use them. They should not use them because it makes your athletic abilities better and if you win because of the drugs then it is not fair.Posted by: AnonymousIt isn't fair.
Other student athletes have to work hard, prepare for the games ahead of them. While their team mates are using drugs, steroids, to make their work easier. It is also cheating the other team. It kind of makes things unbalance. I wouldn't want for anyone to win me, in an unfair way.
Posted by: AnonymousDrug testing is fair.
If you can't pass an easy drug test to play the sports you want then you have a problem with drugs and should not be able to play them until you pass a drug test. If you want to put harmful things into your body be my guest, but thinking it's unfair to be drug tested because you do these things is just stupid.
Posted by: AnonymousStudents should get drug tested for sports
In order to get a job you have to get drug tested, a sport is like a job. If you are late or don't show up you get fired. Therefore, student athletes should have to take drug tests. If there aren't drugs in their system, they have nothing to worry about.
Posted by: AnonymousIt's like cheating the sport.
If we don't check student athletes for drugs such as performance enhancement and steroids, they're just sliding their way up through competition. Sports were made for devotion and to become active physically, mentally and socially. Student athletes should get drug tested, because they're playing the game artificially, not naturally. If this continues without consideration, next thing we know more and more athletes will start to use drugs to enhance their performance, as if it has become a habit.
Posted by: AnonymousYes
All athletes should be drug tested. It is a simple thing. Keep the game as fair as possible. IF some one takes steroids cause they don't want to work as hard, well that's not fair to the person that has been training all their life for that sport
Posted by: theNINETYninePERCENTYES!
I agree with ninetynine who wrote "All athletes should be drug tested. It is a simple thing. Keep the game as fair as possible. IF some one takes steroids cause they don't want to work as hard, well that's not fair to the person that has been training all their life for that sport"
It should all be equally fair! No matter if your wealthy or poor.Posted by: AnonymousThe schools should know whether or not their students are doing drugs.
It's not unconstitutional according to the Supreme Court ruling which supports student athlete drug testing. The schools should know whether or not their students are doing drugs and it's a way to reduce drug abuse in schools. The parents should be for it because if their child is doing drugs it will give the parents a chance to help their child.
Posted by: AnonymousYes they should
I believe that school officials should start testing more frequently. My point is that engaging in drugs while participating in sports can be very dangerous. Drug testing should be mandatory for athletes for their safety. The reason for drug testing are; teams depend on their teammates to always be available, drugs can change your athletic abilities, and students join sport teams as a positive activity to avoid getting into trouble and the presence of drugs in sports defeats the goal. I personally know how it feels to be on a team with others who use drugs. They practically “slow-down” the team. You can’t always count on them, and they can become aggressive and unpleasant to be around. In addition, you can get pressured to use the drugs along with them. Even though some people may think randomly testing everyone under no suspicion is an invasion of privacy.
Posted by: AnonymousI think high school student athletes should be drug tested because
It is not fair is a athlete under the influence of drugs wins against others who are sober. They are not equally at a fair advantage, drugs are illegal. If you are willing to compete you should be willingly provide a drug test because drugs are illegal and should not be affecting STUDENTS. Lets not forget that most of these athletes are under age
Posted by: AnonymousYes, student athletes should be required to take drug tests.
If a student is committed to any school sport, they should be good athletes and follow the rules. Drugs are something athletes need to stay away from. It's all about the game, because if you have even one athlete taking drugs, the game is NO longer fair! So, yes...I agree.
Posted by: AnonymousYes, needs to happen
Good for the school and the student..It's not unconstitutional according to the Supreme Court ruling which supports student athlete drug testing. The schools should know whether or not their students are doing drugs and it's a way to reduce drug abuse in schools. The parents should be for it because if their child is doing drugs it will give the parents a chance to help their child.
Posted by: Anonymousthey definitely should!
I believe that they should. I know personally that half of our basketball team at my school does drugs. I think that if they really valued being part of the team, or their talent or ability why would they do drugs? There is no reason that they should be doing them if they want to be on the team. I beleive it is the schools, and teams, rights to know what their players are doing. If you get caught doing drugs anyway, they'll end up knowing that way! If your playing sports and are majorly against it i think thats just obvious that you are doing them. Im a cheerleader, which is considered a sport so i would even be testing. And im for it. So i see no reason in not drug testing. Maybe if your parents signed a form with their permission to, than some kids would take it a little better. But im all for it!
Posted by: alexislea11Drugs are bad.
Students should have drug testing because if the student is interested in sports then they should be able to focus on sports and not drugs, plus when you hit grade 5 you have a program called D.A.R.E to help you learn about drugs and keep you safe from drugs so that way you won't do drugs and if you do drugs after that then you must not care that drugs can kill you.
Posted by: AnonymousYes they should
I Believe that it would be safer for the athletes on the field. This is because many people can be injured and unsafe around the person that has drugs in their system. Also that it will prevent cheating from teams or players.I hope this shows you that it's wrong to do drugs
Posted by: Anonymousif they are ever going to make it pro they have to get used to it
It will cause less use of drugs in the big leagues. If they get used to it now they wouldn't take it later and their should be a rule that if you want to make it pros you can never used drugs or use drugs more than once. It will help them realize this is a bad thing
Posted by: AnonymousIt is an unfair advantage to other athletes when some are using drugs.
I feel that high school student athletes should be drug tested. It is an unfair advantage to other athletes when some are using drugs. It also becomes a safety issue as well. Under the influence an athlete could injure himself or others playing the sport. If tested and results are positive the student should not be allowed to play until they receive a negative test result. There are consequences for your actions and rules to follow in life. The results should be reported to the parents and allow them to seek counseling for the student. Continuous drug testing of the athlete should be taken and as long as the results stay negative, they can continue to participate in the sport.
Posted by: AnonymousDrugs Are Illegal
How could anyone know if the captain of the high school football team was a frequent smoker, drug user, or drinker, without testing him? They can’t. Students involved in sports should be required to take, and pass, a drug test allowing them to participate and compete. Is it shocking that seventy-two percent of all students have consumed alcohol by the time they finish high school? Just in the past thirty days, over twenty-six percent have. Does it concern anyone that forty-four percent of students have smoked a cigarette? Or seventeen percent of tenth graders, and twenty-three percent of twelfth graders, have used marijuana in the past month? These statistics not only affect positive images of high school students detrimentally, they also negatively impact athletes and sports. With over fifty-five percent of high school students involved in a sport, there is a good chance many of them have one or more illicit habits.
Schools across the country have set up programs to test athletes that have been suspected of drinking or smoking, but not nearly enough schools have a program. Schools in Texas and Illinois have had great success with drug testing athletes, but are limited to the number of tests they can administer. It is constitutional and perfectly legal to test a high school athlete, but the biggest deterrent for most schools is the cost. Many schools, such as those under the Florida High School Athletic Association, have lost funding for drug testing programs.
Simple at home drug and alcohol tests use urine or saliva to determine positive results. These basic self administered drug tests cost anywhere between ten and fifty dollars. Better laboratory tests cost between fifty and eighty dollars. The most accurate tests are blood tests. These range in price from one hundred to six hundred and fifty dollars. If the cost of testing could be lowered, it would not be the leading impediment to administering tests to high school athletes.
Drugs and alcohol aren't healthy for anyone, but they are especially bad for teenage athletes. Drugs are harmful to the brain, heart, and other important organs. Alcohol is a major depressant and the leading cause of liver failure. Drugs and alcohol detrimentally affect how well students perform. They negatively affect an athlete's character and abilities to compete. Teenagers do senseless and dangerous things that hurt them and others when they drink or use drugs; on and off the field. Judgement is impaired, and bad decisions are made.
Substantially low teenage abstinence from drug and alcohol use is a serious crisis. Drug and alcohol testing has the potential to be a major deterrent and solution for lowering the increasing numbers of high school drug and alcohol users.Posted by: AnonymousWhy shouldn't athletes be drug tested?
Don't raise a fuss about, "it's my privacy," it's your urine. I doubt that you were going to do much with it, so why not just give it to the school? Unless you have something to hide of course. So, don't raise a stink about it, it's not a big deal if you're not on drugs.
Posted by: AnonymousYes drug test should be mandatory
If you are a student and play a sport you shouldn't be scared to take a drug test, so yes I think that it should be mandatory for a student to take a drug test. It's not a big deal unless they know what they are doing is wrong but if you are doing what you are supposed to you should take a drug test.
Posted by: AnonymousYes they should.
It's not a "violation of rights". If adults are drug tested for work then students should be drug tested for drugs. Playing in a sport is a privilege not a right. Plus by drug testing the student athletes for drugs it'll eventually help them for the better decisions when they're adults.
Posted by: MaddenSixxYes, they should be tested.
The athletes who fail the drug test most likely don't get a chance to go to college because it cost way too much when they could have just been on probation or penalized. A lot of the great athletes wouldn't pass a simple drug test. Ex: gold medalist Michael Phelps who has won 9 gold metals. You can't tell me that weed is bad.
Posted by: Anonymous
It's not fair
It's inappropriate. Students should have privacy. I have read many articles and even a few parents say that it's inappropriate. I think it's just over the top a little. That's for the parents to find out and get help with. The schools should stay out of it.
Posted by: AnonymousNo they should not
If a high school student has to take a drug test, it would not be fair to them that the rest of the school would not. And some students have more focus on the game when their getting that strong buzz or getting "high". What if the student is really good at the sport and he/she wants to do drugs but they also want to play the sport? Most schools say its either one or the other but then the team is losing a very important player. Plus it is a violation of their rights and it breaks the law of the 4th amendment.
Posted by: AnonymousEducation would be unfair.
The athletes who fail the drug test most likely don't get a chance to go to college because it cost way too much when they could have just been on probation or penalized. A lot of the great athletes wouldn't pass a simple drug test. Ex: gold medalist Michael Phelps who has won 9 gold metals. You can't tell me that weed is bad.
Posted by: AnonymousUnconstitutional
This is Unconstitutional to force somebody to randomly be tested. The only way you should be forced to get tested for drugs is when you are caught breaking the law or you have been caught in the act of actually breaking the law. Also people who have a history of any criminal offences and a history of being on drugs etc should also be tested to provide for better safety of the public. If somebody is being pulled over by a cop for speeding they should be able to be drug tested do to the fact that they are endangering the public and are technically breaking the law.
Posted by: Anonymousviolating rights
not all students are going to participate in drugs. it costs too much money for public schools. it will make some players not play just for the fact that they can't do it. the consequence they will get will not scare them as much as you would like. its violating our privacy, and our rights.
Posted by: AnonymousYou shouldn't be forced to do something without your consent.
They can't force you to do something without your consent. Many people have been forced to take drug tests, and also, many people play from different parts of the world. Many people have different religions and say that if Jesus didn't want us to be taking drugs in the first place, then he wouldn't create them.
Posted by: AnonymousNo we should not .
Don't we have our rights that is our choice if we should be drug tested. There are some schools that give you a drug test just to go to prom that is just not right why should we get drug tested to only go to a dance .We have a right to privacy.
Posted by: Anonymousno they shouldn't.
We should have the right to our own privacy and forcing kids to be drug tested breaks the 4th amendment. America is supposed to be all about freedom and we are taking that for granted. I think its time we say NO for once and do what's best for our children. It should be the parents choice on whether or not we want our children tested.
Posted by: Anonymous