School to use dogs to sniff out drugs
A Rotorua high school is to use dogs to sniff out illegal drugs.Western Heights High School principal Violet Pelham-Waerea told parents in a school newsletter the move was about making sure the school was drug-free, the Rotorua Daily Post reported.
Can you tell all those stressed out teachers to NOT take their legally prescribed prozac? Can you tell all those ADHD kids to NOT take those highly sought-after Ritalin drugs? Drug-free?!?! What planet are you in? Your school is an education institute... Educated your kid with the CORRECT information, and NOT scare tactics. How dare you !
"I must emphasise that in no way does Western Heights High School have any kind of drug problem. We are merely choosing to be proactive rather than reactive in our strategy to prevent drugs entering the school gates," the newsletter said.
Hum... proactive?! What you are doing is 'alluding to the fact that kids do drugs. Young kids see or perceive that their peers are engaged in drugs, and all they, the young people, think... wow, drugs must be fun! Why do they think that? Because everything that their parents, teachers, grandparents say is the NO word around 50 times a day. Perhaps not the actually NO word, but the NEGATIVE word-- don't, shouldn't, mustn't, bad girl, bad boys, good boys don't do...
NO is the word that means "ya man, let's do it!'
....former police dog handlers and non-threatening dog breeds were used to sniff out drugs and explosives in schools, offices and factories.
I really really hate, as a dog lover, that these so called dog handlers use our nice breeds to scare the living day lights out of our kids! YOU CAN'T FOOL KIDS ! Doh!
1 Comments:
At 11:08 a.m.,
Blair Anderson said…
Of grave concern here is the use of our children (and dogs) to reinforce a failed, flawed and deficient 'prohibition' that if it was working this non-existent problem wouldn't require treatment.
How would a parent feel if the children were being given, without consent, coerced radiation treatment while the cancer wasn't there 'just in case'. That is the logical equivalent.
There is no evidence 'dogs' and other anti-drug youth interventions deliver positive outcomes.
The drug war such as it is, removes discretionary parenting rights. Before any one bleats about parents who do drugs... yadda yadda, rights of the child etc. It is the right of child to have empowered parents. And that includes 'when' a parent chooses to educate a child (when they are ready to know) about drugs.
The resources out into this prophylactic prevention would be better spent in other more fruitful areas, however that said, in a post prohibition world friendly dogs might be creatively used in a 'not cool in school', but likely (as in the Netherlands) even that may not even be required. There, parents are empowered.
Its not the message, rather the context in which it is delivered.
A context of hypocritical double standards is fallow ground.
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