Project 7th Grade is a program that issues parents free at-home drug test kits to use on their children. Testing is targeted at 7th graders in the hopes of preventing drug use rather than treating it. The website lists the benefits of the kits including: “Having a kit in your home fosters two-way communication between a parent and child”.
Debbie Moak, founder of notmykid.org, outlined the program when recently on the MSNBC show The Situation, hosted by Tucker “The Dick” Carlson. The interview is available as a podcast. Interestingly, the Journal of School Health published a study on drug testing in schools [pdf] that reported the following in their conclusion: “The two forms of drug testing that are generally assumed to be most promising for reducing student drug use—random testing applied to all students (and, therefore, also likely applied to those in any extracurricular activities, which may come close to encompassing all students), and testing of athletes—did not produce encouraging results.”. Clearly, somebody here is high…Welcome to Middle School… now pee in this cup
Tue, November 15th 2005
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Dick writes:
My Mom made me pee. Now she hates me.
Comment - November 14, 2005 @ 8:16 pm