Shelby County Schools in TN to Consider Random Drug Testing of Students

Shelby County, TN, schools students involved in after-school activities including football, choir and more may soon be subject to random drug testing, according to the Commercial Appeal.

The superintendent of county schools plans to propose a measure that will give schools the ability to randomly test students for drugs and alcohol, regardless of whether there's reasonable suspicion. On the agenda for today's work session, the new policy would allow school administrators to test all students involved in extracurricular activities.

Prior to new Tennessee legislation, schools could drug test only if they had probable cause to believe a student was using drugs. It's now up to individual school districts to set their own drug-testing policies. Source

Of course, parents will have to provide a written consent under the new policy. Well, if this helps to cut down drug use among students, then I am all for it, but will this lead to racial profiling of students deemed at-risk?