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The school board has been wrestling with revisions on drug policy for several months now. At last week’s board meeting, adoption of the proposed policy was postponed to allow time for parental input through questionnaries that will be sent home sometime in the coming month.
It’s a tempest in a tea pot—or pot pipe, as the case may be.
The Rappahannock News has been asked to print the current drug policy as a public service before the survey forms are distributed. We agree that it’s ridiculous to expect parents to comment intelligently on a policy they’ve never seen. But it’s just as ridiculous to send out questionnaries in the first place.
The board members have already emphasized that the survey is informational only. It’s not intended as a poll or a directive for the school board. The board has stressed that the board will decide the policy.
So why don’t they? Why take a poll on what parents think about drugs versus alcohol? Why quiz parents on what the penalties for drug or alcohol use should be?
We guarantee that the overwhelming majority are going to be for strict enforcement of anti-drug gnd alcohol rules—that is, until their son or daughter is caught. Then the rules, no matter how lenient, no matter how strict, are going to be too inflexible. The drug policy is not a matter for community debate. The only groups that have a legitimate claim on input are the teachers and administrators,—the persons who will have to shoulder the responsibility for
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