Sometime in the next couple weeks I am going to do a column on drug testing for high school athletes. Good or bad? I was so sure it would be a good thing. Texas does it, although I am not sure I would like to use Texas as a standard for many things.
Still, I was fairly convinced drug testing would bring more good than harm. and then I talked to Paul Cronin, Newman’s football coach, before the Montgomery game last Friday. He said he would vote against it.
“You would be sending the wrong message to kids,” Cronin said. “You would be telling them you aren’t trusting them. Coaches and parents can do a lot, just by noticing any changes in behavior.”
I’m still more convinced than not that drug testing would work but Cronin did give me something to think about.
