Knowing MCPS they would hire 100 Drug Test Administrators with 100k a year salaries and 100 Drug Test Witnesses at 75K a year

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They can't even get our pay checks right sometimes. Do you think they could manage to drug test all of us? Lol.

Excellent point.

Here’s what would happen knowing MCPS:

Unnecessarily MCPS-branded software randomly selects 27,361 employees to all be drug tested on the same day and the system crashes when we all try to sign up.

You think they would get software to have people sign up. Oh this board never ceases to amaze us

Anonymous wrote:They can't even get our pay checks right sometimes. Do you think they could manage to drug test all of us? Lol.

Excellent point.

Here’s what would happen knowing MCPS:

Unnecessarily MCPS-branded software randomly selects 27,361 employees to all be drug tested on the same day and the system crashes when we all try to sign up.

Anonymous wrote:Many other professionals are not, law-enforcement agencies have an initial drug screening for hiring, but officers usually aren't tested for the rest of their careers.

Exactly!

Listen, I am willing to pee in a cup randomly if it’s happening to all other professionals employed by this county and I don’t have to pay for it.

But this just feels like DCUM is having teacher witch hunt hysteria.

We don’t have a yearly TB test either.

Anonymous wrote:They should be drug tested at random intervals, no exceptions. Immediate dismissal if positive.

Positive for what? Meth? Weed? Where would you like the line drawn?

They should be drug tested at random intervals, no exceptions. Immediate dismissal if positive.

They can't even get our pay checks right sometimes. Do you think they could manage to drug test all of us? Lol.

Drug testing is fraught, because you're going to find tons of legally prescribed medication.
You need to sift through people's history.
You're going to get people who took an old Adderall pill prescribed years ago that they had left in their medicine cupboard, and took to focus for their job interview. Are you going to ding them the same as the person who's actually an addict (except you don't know it), bought pills off someone in a parking lot, but claims he lost his prescription?

It's just too complicated, OP, for a profession that has trouble hiring enough people. And as someone else said, addicts who do the real hard stuff know how to get around drug tests.

Drug tests are only a thing for a minuscule number of professions, and high-level athletic competitions.

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Anonymous wrote:
OP, did you want to institute drug-testing for teachers?

Maybe we can promote an answer to a problem that doesn't really exist, and then we can put even more hoops to jump for teachers. That surely will help our staffing problems.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/08/montgomery-co-first-grade-teacher-charged-with-selling-fentanyl-after-fatal-overdose/

Hey, this dad sexually assaulted his daughter for 12 years. https://wchstv.com/news/nation-world/father-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-daughter-age-9-21-she-gave-birth-3-kids-149-counts-incest-abuse-testimony-deputy-man-kid-child-indicted-cincinnati-investigation-day-suffering-neglect-babies

So now let's interview all girls about whether their father is raping them, and throw in mandatory pregnancy tests for them, too!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's the concern exactly? None of the people who handle important things in your life are regularly drug tested. If your suspicious that their teacher is coming in to work high that's a different concern.

By "important things in your life" do you mean "people's precious children"?

Yes. Also surgeons or any health care professional. People who handle and prepare your food. People who perform maintenance on your car. People who handle your money. There are a lot of important parts of people's lives beyond just their kids. The only one who may be tested on some regularity would be pilots.

Anonymous wrote:ONE teacher out of like 100K MCPS employees did something awful. The other week an MCPD cop was busted with child porn so lets go and require mandatory computer surveillance for all police officers in the county now.

Yes Magid was a terrible person but let's not act like she is anything even remotely close to being the norm

That thought would be too logical for some dcum posters.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does any school districts do the testings?

No

Dcps tests new teachers.

Yup, only at initial hire and I think if your transfer positions. I seem to recall doing it when I switched schools awhile ago. But they require fingerprints every two years. (I’m guessing it’s something simple like prints aren’t stored so they can’t re-run them. It just sounds kind of funny that they don’t require updated drug testing but do require you to submit something unique and unchanging.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ONE teacher out of like 100K MCPS employees did something awful. The other week an MCPD cop was busted with child porn so lets go and require mandatory computer surveillance for all police officers in the county now.

Yes Magid was a terrible person but let's not act like she is anything even remotely close to being the norm

Go ahead start a thread on MCPschools forum or request for a law enforcement forum if one doesn't already exist.

Everyone knows that teachers are the easiest target. People only feel entitled to dictate this profession and not any other tax funded profession.

Anonymous wrote:ONE teacher out of like 100K MCPS employees did something awful. The other week an MCPD cop was busted with child porn so lets go and require mandatory computer surveillance for all police officers in the county now.

Yes Magid was a terrible person but let's not act like she is anything even remotely close to being the norm

Go ahead start a thread on MCPschools forum or request for a law enforcement forum if one doesn't already exist.

ONE teacher out of like 100K MCPS employees did something awful. The other week an MCPD cop was busted with child porn so lets go and require mandatory computer surveillance for all police officers in the county now.

Yes Magid was a terrible person but let's not act like she is anything even remotely close to being the norm