Argumentative Essay: Random Drug Searches

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Rhetorical Essay On October 3rd, 208 three of our classmates were sent to the hospital on drug overdose. We were stuck in our classrooms for hours, not allowed to leave, wondering what was going on. No one had any idea how they were doing or if they were even going to make it through the night. While all of the students ended up alright, this event really opened everyone’s eyes to the real dangers of drugs. After that day school officials have been working with the county sheriffs’ office, conveniently located on campus, to help prevent anything like this from happening again. The school has since decided to perform random drug screenings and property screening monthly as a precaution to keep this sort of event from happening again. These searches could be a great benefit to our school, there would be lass students using drugs, GPA’s would increase, and our school would be a…show more content…
Both the students and parents did agree that these screenings would make the school a safer place. The dogs used during these investigations are trained not only to find drugs, but also to find alcohol and gunpowder. If a dog smells something suspicious in a locker it will be opened and searched for dangerous items. This could prevent a shooting in our school. Most importantly the searches will help prevent a similar situation to the one on October 3rd and could potentially save lives. Implementation of these searches, though very controversial, would have great benefits for all of SFHS. They would limit the amount of drugs school property, increase students grades, and most importantly insure student safety. The searches would not be a distraction to students who have nothing to hide and for those student’s who feel like they do have something to hide would be more likely to leave that “something” at

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