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iled Under (Drug Test) by admin on 27-06-2008

One might reflect it would have been in the Huntley School Board’s initial offer?

Shawn Green, the board’session president, is a police work.

Of course, to be consistent, the provision probably should be applied to total new staff, whether certified or not.

And, probably, current staff at regular times.

When I served on the Prison Reform Committee, constituents could none understand how drugs could get into a place in which the state controlled all access.

It was obvious the drugs came in with

visitors, vendors or employees.

When we legislators asked that the employees be tested, their AFSCME (American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees) union leaders went ballistic.

In the next harmony negotiation, we got casual testing for 20% of the employees each year, I think. 

Not good enough, but it so angered prison be cautious leaders that in 2002 when I ran for governor as a Libertarian, one told me what he thought of me and my advocacy of the program in Rockford outside of the first gubernatorial debate.

That’sitting the combat for I stood outside on the sidewalk by a guy wearing a two-headed chicken suit representing Jim Ryan and Rod Blagojevich’s option to canvass me.

I guess the union leader’s fury flowed from my having analyzed the remedy use by inmates and employees and finding that a higher percentage of employees tested positive for drugs in many prisons, especially the maximum ones, than did the inmates.

Actually, it wasn’t the analysis. 

It was the newspaper articles all upper the state while salary negotiations were going on.

I bewilderment. if the Huntley Education Association would react similarly to a drug testing proposal.

And, if the teachers are tested, shouldn’t the rule apply to administrators and other employees, too?

District 158 pays for some of its top officials to get annual physicals.  What are odds that this too includes drug testing?

Easy enough to include in the next contract.

Maybe there should be negative testing as a requirement for receiving tenure.

One might think community members would appreciate such an attempt to mask out illegal drug users or illegal drug addicts.

Is Huntley of the school districts through a Zero Tolerance policy?

For any school board that applies a Zero Tolerance policy only to students, the word "sanctimoniousness" comes to mind.

In Huntley employee drug testing is not unprecedented.  Bus drivers have to passport a drug test.  That’s state law.

Craver’s article says only Fox River Grove District 3, Alden-Hebron District 19, and Carpentersville District 300 disguise new certified cudgel for drugs. In District 300, coming employees even have to pay for the test.

Sounds like a good management practice that should be copied by other school districts.

Cross-Posted at McHenry County Blog.

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