Parkway School Board Moves Forward on Drug-Sniffing Dogs
Board officials heard a report on the plan to conduct the searches twice a semester.
Parkway officials are moving toward plans to bring drug-sniffing dogs to the district's high schools. The Parkway School Board heard details of the plan at the district’s high schools in January at a board meeting Wednesday night. Parkway Deputy Superintendent Desi Kirchhofer presented the board with a report and explained that the program is an addition to the many safety and security measures the district already employs. “This isn’t a stand alone, it’s packaged with a lot of measures that we use to keep our schools and safe drugs free,” Kirchhofer said. The searches would be coordinated by the principals at the district’s five high schools and conducted twice a semester by the St. Louis County Police. Principals can choose to have the …
Jeffrey Steven
8:19 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
We cannot just leave this problem up to school administrators and law enforcement. Parents have access to home drug test kits to detect for common drugs of abuse like marijuana, cocaine, heroin, benzos, and barbiturates. Kids begin experimenting with pills because they are free, and typically unlocked at home. They may even attend so called farming or pharming parties. That's where kids each … more ›