Testing, One, Two, Three, Four

How
come every time the crypto-fascists take a major step forward in their
ongoing crusade
to control every aspect of American life, they test it out on the kids
first? How about obligatory, universal drug testing?  That;s what they’re up to at St. Patrick High School on Chicago’s Far West Side. All they need
are a few hairs, sent here to Cambridge…

St. Patrick officials, with the strong backing of parents, unanimously
decided this fall to approve drug testing all 990 of its students, putting
the all-boys Catholic school in league with a small fraternity of private
schools nationwide that are going beyond a Supreme Court ruling allowing
public schools to drug test students in athletics or other extracurricular
activities.

Beginning next school year, every student will have about 15 hairs snipped
1 1/2 inches, to be tested by Psychemedics, a Cambridge, Mass.-based
drug testing company.

The Dowbrigade wonders what the policy will be on BALD students.  Baldness
is definitely a fashion statement these days, especially among minorities.
 Forcing students to grow hair just for testing could be seen as
discriminatory. Perhaps NBA players have been anticipating hair-follicle
drug testing for years. We smell a conspiracy….

from the Boston Globe