Thursday, October 6, 2011
No Privacy?
"In any event, students who participate om competitive extracurricular activities voluntarily subject themselves to many of the same intrusions on their privacy as do athletes." This to me felt like one of the most ridiculous things I've hear. When i try out for a sport at DHS, i have never signed a sheet that says i agree to having less privacy than normal... I feel like changing in front of someone is not an invasion of privacy, but when you have to do an act like urinating in front of an adult of whom you don't know it is very uncomfortable and nerve-racking. Or in another example, when you join Mathletes you don't have to change in front of any other teammates, so why should they have less privacy? I simply just feel that this statement is absurd. Why should a student be punished because he/she wants to represent their town in a positive manner. Also, i believe that even though the school says that the test results will not be publicized, the information will get out in other ways. Its very easy to tell when a student is suspended from an event and it raises questions. Even though the school does not release the information, it could still get out which the student could feel as a major invasion of privacy and could cause major issues. Finally, from reading the court case it seems that the school does not give valid information that the school has a serious drug problem. Finding one joint on school grounds does not mean that over half of the school smokes marijuana. Our deans could give more evidence that our school has a worse drug problem! But then again I don't know the definition of a "drug problem."
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