Talk:School district drug policies
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[edit] Copyvio?
This smells like a copyvio but I can't find a reference. Can someone prove it? Where did this come from?
[edit] A Defense
No, there is no copyright infringement here. This incident did happen (check Archives on mailtribune.com), and the basic information regarding school district Drug Policies is accurate. Why do you think it is a copyright violation? Just because it is written better than most articles on wikipedia does not mean that it should be ostracized.
It's actually considerably worse-written than the good articles here. For example, there is no indication of geographic location. The beginning of the article seems to promise a general coverage of the topic, not even indicating a restriction to the US, but by the end of the article it seems to be covering the petty grievance of a handful of students on the forensics team of a single Oregon school who got in trouble on a poorly supervised meet. Second, the reader unfamiliar with the issue has no idea what the other side of the controversy is-- why would a school have a drug and alcohol policy? How have they changed over the last century? Do they accomplish their goals? What have been the results of court challenges? The final dropped ball in the article is the lack of conclusion: the committee met for five months, and then...? This is a half-assed, self-absorbed rant that would have been rejected by most high school newspapers. Should we delete it? Dalembert 02:15, 10 January 2006 (UTC) PS: look up "ostracized" and refrain from big words in public until you know what they mean.
[edit] Wow
Sometimes, people can be so mean! Here is the definition of "Ostracized": excluded from a group. I am pretty sure that whomever wrote the statement above was using this relatively small word correctly.
Mean, but correct. You may be "pretty sure" ostracized was used correctly in the above paragraph, but you are wrong. The expression of suspicion of a copyright infringement does not suggest "exclusion from a group." The article is a pathetic adolescent whine, roughly equivalent to: "Teenagers have a consitutional right to use illegal drugs!! So there!!" Dalembert 11:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NPOV?
This seems like the poster child article on how to write something with a POV. It seems to be written from the POV of someone who wants to be free of searches, and doesn't even touch on the issues in support of the testing policy. Teekno 20:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] re:high school newspaper
My high school newspaper Hawkeye would not even publish an article on the flu epidemic in our school that forced it to close because it was "controversial" of course this article would not be put in a school newspaper!
