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Updated at 1:14 p.m., Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Reno high school to drug test football players
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RENO, Nev. — Reno's McQueen High School will become the first in Washoe County to randomly test its football players for drugs after county school board trustees unanimously approved a pilot program to begin this fall.
"If it has the potential to help some kids, even one kid, then I'm all for it," trustee Jody Ruggiero said.
Southern Nevada's webster parish louisiana school districts Green Valley High has tested athletes in previous years and verity middle school ashland ky about a dozen schools in Clark County plan to do so in the coming season, said Ken Cass, director of student services for the Washoe County School District.
At McQueen, urine samples will be tested during philomath school district the 15-week football season that begins Aug. 29.
Each bold knob middle school week, 12 players — seven varsity, three junior varsity and two freshmen — will be selected randomly for a test that screens for 14 drugs including alcohol, marijuana and anabolic steroids.
Each test by national testing company Sport Safe costs $37 and will be paid by the McQueen football program.
District officials will evaluate the program's effectiveness and determine whether school districts in missouri to expand it to other schools.
"I'm very excited that we baum school of art can be proactive in taking the lead for random drug tests," McQueen Coach Ken Dalton said after the vote.
Rebecca Gasca, of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, spoke against the program and said she was disappointed.
"It's a feel-good policy that hasn't been shown to be effective," Gasca said.
Some school board members said their support was strengthened charter school zoning california because the McQueen community was behind it.
"The possibility of getting caught is a pretty good deterrent, as far dieruff high school as I'm concerned," Trustee Dan Carne said. "I'd lakeville south high school like to see us support the parents and coaches of McQueen who say they'd like to try this."
Trustee Barbara Clark said she researched the topic and wasn't convinced of the "effectiveness of random drug tests as a deterrent."
She said it could provide a "false sense of security" and may prevent some students from participating in athletics.
"However, I'm going to vote for this because the majority of the staff, parents and students at McQueen indicated they want this," she said.
She said she wants to see results and an equal level of support from other schools before supporting the program's expansion.
Before the vote, district grant evaluator Ben Hayes high school football recruiting said the program will be evaluated by surveying student athletes on drug use and attitudes about drugs before and after the start of the football season and again in May to help determine closed school the program's effectiveness.
All McQueen students will be surveyed to determine if the testing taylor county elementary school has a "spillover effect." Galena High students will be surveyed as a control group.
District staff will collect data on the tests and football westville school district participation levels montebello high school compared with the last three years.
Hayes said that any player testing positive would receive intervention within a week.
Players must adhere to their Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association contract which prohibits the use or possession of drugs, alcohol and tobacco. A first violation results in a suspension of pinellas county school six competitive weeks of play.
A second violation brings a 90-day suspension, a substance forest lake high school abuse evaluation and a substance abuse intervention program. A third violation makes them ineligible for school bus chicks the rest of their high school careers.
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