WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- The National School Boards Association praised Thursday's Supreme Court decision on student drug testing.
A narrow court majority said random drug tests on students participating in extracurricular activities is constitutional.
"It is crucial that local school boards be able to exercise their own good judgment about what strategies to use to fight drug use in their schools," said Mossi White, president of the association.
"While each community will make its own decisions on strategies to create safe and secure learning environments," he added, "school boards will now be able to create the policies they and the community believe will best address the problem of student drug abuse."
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, better known as NORML, called the decision unreasonable.
"Schools should educate, not police students," said Donna Shea, NORML's legal director. "In reaching this decision, the court supports a school district's erection of obstacles to kids participating in extracurricular activities, and also concludes that kids have a much lower expectation of privacy."
