We blindly trust them with our children for hours daily. Some of them spend more time with kids than the kids’ parents can afford to. They are certified to dispense fact-based knowledge, notice if a child has a learning disability, runny nose or is hungry.
Fast-forward to week 50 of 2019. After reading this week’s “Can you believe this” story about the fired substitute teacher. Canned for smoking pot in a North Attleboro high school classroom. I began to wonder.
Like my colleague Chris McCarthy, I’m curious about what’s up at City On A Hill government charter school. Where’s the money? Kids asked to watch movies instead of learning algorithms and Socrates.
Let’s add the alleged assault at the Roosevelt Middle School in New Bedford. Where were the mandated reporters, the monitors when chaos hit those hallowed hall ways? A child with a learning disability is clobbered by another student. Where did our tax dollars go on that security breach?
There is one thing. I am now more convinced than ever that teachers and all school officials, on a government payroll, should be required to undergo mandatory drug testing to gain and maintain their position? This starts with the Superintendents and works its way down to the janitors in a drum.
We understand why bus drivers undergo routine testing. Safety! Your child should be afforded the same assumed safe guards inside the school building. Imagine the athletic coach high on crack mumbling the plays. The school nurse in la la land administering aspirin. A cafeteria worker munching on pot brownies and mistakenly sprinkling a pitch on a slice of pizza.
Quit joking Brian, you say. Did you ever expect a teacher to light up in the classroom with students ably watching? The one thing we can all agree on is that school employees are a part of the general population, and so is drug use and abuse.
Teachers preach against using drugs. They are mandated to report on students and their parents on suspected drug use. These mandates come from the top down. They all, superintendent to substitute janitor need to be drug tested, frequently, to assure the tax paying public, that these school officials are indeed practicing what they are preaching!!
I’ll be further discussing on the Saturday December 21 talk show during the 8 am hour [EST]. The call-in line is (877) 996-1420. Feel free to response to this post right here.
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