Starting this year the Miami-Dade County School Board will randomly test high school students for performance-enhancing drugs or steroids.

I suspect readers will either champion the school board’s initiatives to combat illicit drug use in public high schools, or they will abhor the plan as government overreach.

Cynthia Demos of CBS Miami has the story:

MD Schools To Start Drug Testing Students

Students will be randomly tested for drugs this school year, according to a new plan.

On Wednesday, the Miami-Dade County School Board announced plans to test high school students at random for performance enhancing drugs or steroids.
The school board said the pilot program starts this year.

Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the goal is to stop the use of steroids for athletes and ultimately try to find the dealers preying on kids.

“There is always an adult culprit behind these issues,” said Carvalho.