When voluntary drug-free clubs become mandatory

A new trend is sweeping public and private schools in northern Kentucky, and it was suspect almost from the giddy-up.

A growing list of local middle and high schools are starting their own Drug Free Clubs of America chapters. This alone might not sound suspicious. But a red flag came up when it was reported that one of the guidelines for students to join these clubs is that they must submit to occasional drug testing.

This indicated that the purpose of the club is to make pariahs out of students who don't want to take a drug test and therefore won't join.

My suspicion has now been confirmed. The superintendent of Dayton schools has now told the press that colleges and employers will someday ask today's students if they were members of this club.

Busted!

In other words, membership in an ostensibly voluntary club that requires drug testing is in fact mandatory if you want to get into a better college or find a better job. This is just another way the system has of persecuting dissidents.

What we may need to do is pass a law making it illegal for prospective employers to discriminate against those who did not join this club.