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Posted by norml on Tuesday, April 19 2005 (5605 reads)
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 MrZippy writes:
"08.04.05
by Stuart Dye
An intermediate school is calling in sniffer dogs to search children as young as 11 for fear drugs are finding their way into the playground.
Birkdale Intermediate, on the North Shore, has warned its parents and pupils that "drug dogs" will come to the school to carry out random checks."
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Posted by drstuey on Tuesday, October 26 2004 (4812 reads)
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 Counter-productive "Just say no" abstinence-based drug education programmes such as DARE could be replaced by realistic harm-minimisation education after the launch of a new resource kit for New Zealand schools.
All schools with Year Seven to Year Thirteen pupils have been posted a handbook and practical guide called Strengthening Drug Education in School Communities.
This follows on from an extensive literature survey carried out by the Ministry of Youth Development which discovered that abstinence-based drug education is not effective and, in many cases, actually increases drug use.
The booklets provide a guide to best practice for drug education in schools. They include a checklist for schools for assessing the quality of external providers (such as DARE).
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Posted by norml on Thursday, April 01 2004 (5749 reads)
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 Young people are under intense peer pressure to drink, smoke and have sex, especially in social settings, and with cannabis use now normalised more realistic drug education approaches are needed, says J'NETTE SAXBY in Norml News Autumn 2004.
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Posted by drstuey on Saturday, September 20 2003 (5429 reads)
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Nelson College students will be drug tested when staff notice their school performance is dropping. The Board of Trustees has decided it is legally able to introduce a policy of targeted drug testing.
Any student whose performance drops off will be tested and students who return positive results will undergo counselling and continual testing to confirm a reduction on their drug-taking.
Green MP and former NORML secretary Metiria Turei was outraged at the shock new move and called on the Minister of Education to investigate whether Nelson College’s plan breaches both the Human Rights Act and the Bill of Rights. "Essentially, this drug-test plan will make drug suspects out of every student going through a rough patch."
 17/09/03 College May Introduce Drug Test
 18/09/03 "Mucking around" no excuse for drug-test
19/09/03 Drug Testing Policy Defended
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Posted by drstuey on Sunday, August 31 2003 (6635 reads)
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An intermediate school has secretly offered a 12-year-old boy and his family more than $10,000 compensation after accusing him of smoking and supplying cannabis during school time and subsequently expelling him.
The boy had only agreed to keep marijuana on the day for another student and was caught when staff smelt cannabis in his bag. He was devastated by the allegations, lost confidence, felt ostracised and scarred.
After a battle to clear his name by the boys family, the school apologised for being unfair to the boy and accepted that the original investigation was "invalid". The matter is still in the hands of lawyers. Read more below.
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Posted by norml on Friday, August 01 2003 (7590 reads)
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the dangers of student drug testing
NORML News Winter 2003
Recent incidents at several New Zealand high schools have raised questions regarding the appropriateness of punitive policies for students regarding illegal drug use, writes Stephen McIntyre.
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Posted by drstuey on Tuesday, July 08 2003 (7810 reads)
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Invercargill: The James Hargest High School board of trustees is standing by its decision to allow four boys who committed indecent assault to remain at school, while kicking out another pupil for smoking cannabis.
The first incident, in May, involved an indecent assault on a 13-year-old third form girl during school time. Her mother said the girl was tackled and pinned to the ground by two boys. Another boy held up her skirt while a fourth indecently assaulted her. The boys were only stood down for four days and made to write letters of apology to the girl.
A month later, Scott Irvine ( 14 ) was suspended, then expelled, after he admitted smoking cannabis while he stood with a group of other pupils. At the time, he was out of school uniform, away from the grounds and out of school time.
The parents of the two children accused the school of getting their priorities wrong. The mother of the girl who was assaulted said her daughter's incident was the more harmful. The parents of Scott Irvine have backed him up and complained to the press. A local policeman and a youth worker contacted by the press also attacked the decision by the school.
08/07/03 Cannabis Punishment Under Fire
08/07/03 School exclusions ‘archaic’ claim Greens
09/07/03 High School Caned Over Drugs Issue
10/07/03 MP's Suggestion 'Nuts'
10/07/03 Independent discipline review works for victims too
11/07/03 High School Defends Its Two Policies
 11/07/03 The shame of James Hargest High
24/07/03 Hargest Decisions Defended
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Posted by drstuey on Monday, May 19 2003 (5106 reads)
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NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS
Monday, May 19, 2003
Drug testing in schools does not deter student drug use any more than doing no screening at all, according to a new federally financed study
of 76,000 students nationwide, by far the largest to date.
The study, published last month in The Journal of School Health, found that drug use is just as common in schools with testing as in those without it.
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Posted by drstuey on Sunday, December 01 2002 (5304 reads)
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NORML News Summer 2003
Youth drug use has become the excuse for delaying any change to the cannabis laws, but as Phil Saxby reports, there is some hope.
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Posted by drstuey on Sunday, October 14 2001 (4956 reads)
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Source: Sunday Star-Times, 14 October 2001
By Rachel Grunwell
The mother of a special needs student expelled for smoking
cannabis out of school hours is elated her son will return to
school.
In the Auckland High Court on Friday, justice David Baragwanath
quashed the Northcote College board of trustees' expulsion and
ordered the fifth-former be allowed back to class.
The trustees have to pay the $7495 legal bill.
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Posted by drstuey on Friday, October 12 2001 (5053 reads)
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New Zealand Herald, 12 October 2001
Worried parents who suspect their children are using drugs
are turning increasingly to privately owned drug dogs to
search their homes.
Former police dog handler Paul Thomas has the only
private drug dog search company in New Zealand and says
demand from schools and parents has recently increased
dramatically.
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