Students Speak Out: Do you approve of the use of dogs and undercover police to detect drugs in District high schools?

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 26, 1987 | Copyright information

The D.C. Board of Education is considering using police dogs to locate drugs in students' lockers. Many D.C. public high schools already have undercover police posing as students to uncover drug activity in the schools.

What is your opinion of these new techniques to fight drug use in high schools?

I believe that this is just the idea to obstruct the flow of illegal drugs in our school system. I feel that anyone who possesses drugs in any school is a disgrace to the school, other students, and to himself. The "smack on the hand" technique is no longer effective, so the authorities have no ...

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