Some
public school students in Mingo
County
A
new policy requires random drug tests for student-athletes, students who
participate in extracurricular activities and students who drive to school.
Parents also can volunteer their children for the test selection process.
Schools
Superintendent Randy Keathley says school officials hope early intervention
will prevent students from becoming substance abusers as adults.
The
policy applies only to high school students this year. Director of student
services Dreama Dempsey says the testing will be expanded to seventh-graders and
eighth-graders next school year.
Several
other school systems also drug test students, including Cabell, Putnam and
Logan counties.
