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...Lockney officials are vindicated by last week's Supreme Court ruling that random drug testing of students involved in extracurricular activities is constitutional. Still, Lusk is reluctant to give testing another try for fear of rekindling local opposition. "It's opened the door," he says of the ruling. "We just don't know how wide or even if we want to walk through it again...
...might say that Lockney, a small farming community in the Texas panhandle, was ahead of its time. A couple of years ago, with local drug trafficking and addiction on the rise, the local school district adopted one of the strongest drug-testing policies in the country: all kids in Grades 6 through 12 were subject to mandatory drug tests, with spot checks throughout the semester. "Our purpose was to provide a deterrent for the students, not to catch them," says superintendent Raymond Lusk. "If they were caught, there'd be consequences, certainly, but that...
Lying on the ironing-board flatness of Texas's High Plains, Lockney, Texas, is about as far removed from inner-city gangs and violence as is possible to get in the lower forty-eight. The nearest city with an airport, Lubbock, is, as the song says, a place best observed from a rear view mirror. Not much happens in these parts. That's the way most people want it. Populated with deeply religious people who like their religion like they like their barbecue sauce--fiery and covering everything--the west Texas Panhandle is one of the last notches...
...would not think that in such a community there would be difficulty in keeping children in line. But the overwhelming majority of parents in Lockney do not believe that they are up to the task and want the government to find out if their kids are druggies. In spite of there being no evidence of significant juvenile drug use in the town, a cloud of suspicion hangs heavy over students in grades six through 12 in Lockney Independent School District. Believing that the best way to combat teenage drug use is to force every...
...moment, anyway, Larry Tannahill seems to be fighting a solitary battle. Despite its extreme nature, the Lockney drug policy hasn't elicited nearly as much ire as Tannahill's protest has. Since filing his suit, Tannahill has lost his job as a farm worker (his former employer maintains his dismissal had nothing to do with the case) and has woken up to discover his dog covered in paint, lying amidst threatening notes on his doorstep. Tannahill tells the Times that his goal is simply to protect his son's constitutional rights, but his refusal to abide by the school district...