Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2002/07

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music vs. drug testing
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:55:13 -0400

At 06:04 PM 7/1/2002 -0500, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>Tell me how you can feel safe and secure in building that you can not leave,
>you can not move freely around in, and are under constant suspicion for
>"something." That hardly encourages you to want to learn. I certainly don't
>consider it a healthy enviroment. Teachers cannot always be friends, but
>they should never be enemies. Indeed, even the administration should never
>be considered enemies. I never want students scared of me. I'm sad to report
>there were times in high school where I was scared of my administration,
>mostly in the reactions to Columbine that I mentioned earlier. Granted, it
>got better after a time, but not being able to trust those responsible for
>your education is not a nice feeling, especially when you have no legal
>standing.

Things are very wrong in such a school. Or in your attitude. You should
be thinking more in terms of the teachers and administration protecting YOU
from harm. Of course, if you are one of the perpetrators...

Open campuses are a ridiculous idea, supported, I think, mostly by the
local fast-food establishments.

> > > > The only "right" I want to see taken away is the "right" of criminals
>to
> > > > break the law and get away with it.
> > >
> > >Eloquently put, but impossible to achieve. There will always be crime,
>and
> > >there will always be those who can get away with it.
> >
> > You still have to try. Our reach should exceed our grasp.
>
>Yes, but not by cutting into civil liberties, that makes us no better than
>those we wish to, rightly, catch.

And thus we return to the question of whether a drug test violates your
civil liberties. I say "no."

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
451 Old Orchard Drive
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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