If high school students want to drive their cars to school in Transylvania County, they should be prepared to be tested for drugs.
This year Rosman and Brevard High Schools began randomly testing students who are given parking permits to park in school lots. Those students joined other high school students involved in competitive extra-curricular activities who have been randomly tested since 2005. Middle school testing (in competitive extra-curricular activities) was added last year.
So far this year, four students have tested positive for marijuana use. Safe Drug Free Schools Coordinator John Tinsley says it gives students a reason to resist. "Hopefully this will give student an excuse in terms of peer pressure to tell their peers, I don't want to do drugs, " says Tinsley.
Breonna Taylor attends the ninth grade at Rosman High School. She says she knows kids who do drugs and recently lost a friend in a car accident because that friend was using. Taylor says, "I want to stay drug free, I hate it. t's involved in my life. It used to be, and I'm glad it's out."
How uncommon is this policy? Of the Upstate school districts which responded to our inquires, none of them perform drug testing on students.
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