Students at an elite eastern suburbs private school will be subject to drug screening, and bag, locker and pocket searches after students smuggled marijuana and e-cigarettes into an excursion.
A prestigious eastern suburbs Jewish school will test and search students for drugs and e-cigarettes.
Moriah College in Queens Park will introduce drug testing after Year 10 students were caught using marijuana and e-cigarettes at a recent Zionist seminar.
Students will be subjected to “random and targeted regular drug screening and bag, locker and pocket searches”, the school’s principal Rabbi Yehoshua Smukler wrote in an email to parents.
“As a college, we are steadfast in accepting our collective responsibility to educate and take a leading role in eradicating this insidious culture from our community,” Rabbi Smukler wrote.
Drug education sessions will be mandatory for students and parents. The college has trained school nurses to take swab tests and, if a student refuses, they have 24 hours to present pathology urine or blood tests from nearby clinics in Bondi Junction.
“We involve parents from the very start and speak to students with a parent or psychologist present,” Rabbi Smukler told The Sunday Telegraph.
“I’ve received a lot of feedback from parents and 90 per cent has been very supportive.”
Read the article by Jack Morphet in The Daily Telegraph.