You are playing varsity for the sport you love your freshmen year. You have many colleges looking at you already and you are still a freshmen! Next thing you know, you are going to the collage of your dreams on a scholarship. This is the best thing that has ever happened to you but, you have a dirty secret…...When you were in high school you developed a drug addiction. The college you go to gives a drug test every month. With your addiction, you don’t pass, you get kicked off the team, your scholarship gets taken away. Now you are in your 20’s and you work at McDonald’s. You once had everything you ever dreamed but your addiction to drugs made you lose everything in a blink of an eye. High schools drug testing students could help with many students so they don’t make the biggest mistake of their lives. With high schools drug testing students wouldn't even try drugs so they could still play sports. Also Drugs are illegal in many states. Drugs can also hurt you or your other students.
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sports/perform they need to give up the things that can really hurt them or others. In the article Alcohol, Tobacco, Illicit Drugs by David Yusko. David state's “athletes on drugs are athletes who get hurt badly, or hurt others.” (Yusko) When students do drugs they are at a greater risk of hurting themself or even hurt others. When students are taking drugs they can be very dangerous. Another reason why student athletes should be drug tested is because “Teens who abuse drugs may have a greater risk of developing an addiction.(Smith)
Another reason why student athletes should be drug test is because drugs are illegal there for kids shouldnt be doing them while they are playing sports or even doing drugs at all.
The article Teenage Drug Abuse. By Kayla Smith said “The perceptions of marijuana use among teens is changing most high schools”.(Smith) Marijuana is illegal in many states, There some kids should not be using these drugs. Drugs are also very dangerous so kids,high school kids,shouldn't be doing drugs. Another reason why kids should not be doing drug is because if you do get addicted to the drug you are at a greater risk of harming yourself and other students. Another thing is “ the majority of high school seniors do not think occasional marijuana smoking is harmful, with only 36.1% saying that regular use puts the user at greater risk” ( ) This shows how students don’t understand you are at a great risk for many different reasons when you are doing
drugs.
The last reason why students should be drug tested is because if students are drug tested to play they would stop doing the thing that comes between them and the sport they want to play. As Keith states “Participating in team sports is a privilege, not a right. Let's start to tie to being drug free.” (Ablow)He is saying sports is a wonderful privilege. Something that some schools don’t have because of money. If you do drugs you are hurting yourself and the sports program. Another statement is “we should begin with high school athletes competing for JV and varsity sport teams.” (Ablow)With them starting to drug test varsity and JV students will stop doing drugs so they can play the sport they want to play in their four years of high school.
Some people may say it's not fair to the students that they have to take a drug test so they can play a high school sport. Well it is actually fair the students that have not done drugs one, don’t have a greater chance have hurting themselfs your even other students. Two they will have a better shot at life because they will have jobs that don’t have you asking for people's orders in a drive thru. If kids take the step to stop doing drugs then they will have a good life to.
Recap, students need to be drug tested. They need to be drug tested because they have a greater risk of hurting themselves or others. Another reason is because most of the drug's high school students do are illegal in many states. Last but not least Kids will take that step to quit drugs so they can do the sport they want to do in their four years of high school. All these thing are reasons why we need to drug test high school students. If you don’t want to end up working at a McDonald then vote for drug testing at high schools.