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Drug testing in schools has been happening across Northeast Ohio for years. Now, another district has decided to test students, and it's not sitting well with everyone.Drug tests can be done for a job, in court and now at Strongsville city schools.Strongsville’s new mandatory drug testing program was adopted on Aug. 1; it’ll apply to students in 6th through 12th grade who play sports, participate in extracurricular activities or have driving privileges.
“It does help with lowering the drug use,” Prueter continued, “This is about Saturday night or whatever time someone goes to a student says, hey, want to hit my vape or smoke a joint or whatever. It gives them one more opportunity to say, you know what? No, let's don't do that. I get tested.”Strongsville isn't the first to do this; other districts have been testing their students for years, including North Olmsted, Avon, Amherst and Wadsworth.“It's a different world.
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