Drug education
Drug education has been the misguided effort in public schools to deter students from drug use by teaching students about drugs. As a result, illegal drug use by students in 8th through 12th grades has skyrocketed from 62% in 1991 to a shocking 77% in 2007.[1] The failure of drug education in schools is analogous to the failure of sex education.
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History
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 requires schools to impose drug education, or else lose their federal funding.
This mandate began with the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act Amendments of 1989.[2] It expanded with the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1994, which was folded into the 6th reauthorization of ESEA.[3]
In 2001 Congress passed No Child Left Behind—the 7th reauthorization of ESEA. Once again, a revised Drug-Free Schools provision was included within the larger bill.[4]
ESEA/NCLB was supposed to be reauthorized in 2006, but Republicans were unable to produce a final bill that year. After Democrats took over Congress, they chose not to negotiate with Bush over education. Instead they simply waited for a Democrat president.
New Jersey
In December 2008, an official report shows about 30% of public schools failing the No Child Left Behind academic standards, and over 400 schools repeatedly so.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20081207/NEWS08/812070305/1002
- ↑ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c101:H.R.3614.ENR:
- ↑ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:H.R.6:
- ↑ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:H.R.1:
- ↑ http://www.nj.gov/education/news/2008/1219ayp.htm
