Drugs and Dogs and Teens and Beer

Today I was stopped in the middle of a game of two ball soccer because the girls gym class wasn't allowed in the locker rooms while the drug dogs searched the locker room. The most upsetting thing to me was the fact that I didn't get to play soccer. I will not fault the school for what they do because contrary to popular belief they don't want to make every kid look like a bad guy. They want to check every student so that they find the few that are bad. The last thing the school board wants is for the school they represent to look terrible. If a student has drugs on school property they deserve to get caught and they should not be allowed back. Coach Palko said that this years student section was they best in over ten years, but he also talked to the team about how he cannot condone their actions when he knows half of them are coming to the game "blitzed out of their mind."  I can't blame him because while it is great to see the kids supporting us on Fridays it is sad to know that many of them would not be acting the way they were if alcohol was not present. There is a time and a place for everything, and the time and place to drink is college. Not high school. "But some parents don't care", say some students. And to that I say if they don't care that their kid is doing something that is blatently illegal, then they shouldn't care that their kid is viewed as a problem. Because that's what drinking is, especially in high school. A problem.