Drug Testing and Student Rights

Instructions for 10/6-10/7.

• Read the Board of Education v. Earls case in the packet.  Annotate using the Facts, Issue, Holding, Reasoning model.
• Publish a post responding to the Court's opinions in Acton and Earls.  What do these cases say about a students' right to privacy?  Do you agree with these decisions and what they say about drug testing?  Why or why not?  Be sure to use specific quotations that cite the Court's reasoning from each case in your response.  Choose the text based on your reaction to it?  What is provocative and why?
• Next take a look at the ACLU site on student privacy, this article about another recent case of a student search, and this article about drug sniffing dogs in schools.
• Add to your post.  What do these articles tell you about student privacy rights?  What do you think overall?  Are your rights being balanced fairly against the values and ideals that allow for the searches described?