well how did you like that topic
uh i don't know i've got mixed feelings about the topic
do you i don't
no okay
no i'm pretty opinionated about that and many other things as you well know
i agree with it i think uh i think a company should be able to test at any any employee anytime they see fit
i just i just don't think there's a place in our environment environment you know in the work
well
force for drugs or alcohol either
well i don't believe in drugs or alcohol but if you'll remember when the teachers had to take the TCAT
right
they were talking about drug testing us
uh-huh
and we were laughing that we'd have to go to that examination to prove we could read and write with a specimen of urine
uh-huh
and we found it belittling
you did uh-huh
yeah
well i can sort of understand that uh but not being a teacher as you are you know i i was not quite as sympathetic as you know as i probably would have been if if Kay were a teacher or something
that's true
but uh
but then you know at the same token i'm not against because i look at airline pilots
uh-huh
bus drivers
uh-huh
you know people that really have other peoples' lives in their hands truck drivers it's supposed to be a huge problem with truck drivers using drugs
that's right that's right
that's that's right and i think it is a big problem with them using drugs from what you read you know but uh
and alcohol
and
you know in those areas i really you know do believe that maybe we should clean up our
you know house
yeah i think so too i i agree with it uh i know Kay's company you know they started it couple of years ago
and so many of the people even the professional people were boy they were so against them doing that you know and i thought jeez to me it's quite simple uh
you either need a job or you don't the the job is what provides all of your needs
and uh if they say hey you can't do this work i'd say hey i agree i don't i won't do that and i think most of them have agreed to that now although they didn't like it at first
yeah i think it's just like anything else a new concept you know as i had said if i have to go to a testing area with my urine specimen i was insulted
yeah it it it is i can see where you would think yeah that is belittling you know i'd probably feel the same way
if i had to do that
but at the same token in education we can't do drug drug random drug testing on kids
yeah that's true
you know i mean their rights are protected
you bet oh gosh they would they would really raise a stink if that was to happen
what well but why if you're going to do teachers or professionals why not do the kids
when we see them and they're you know under the influence
right yes i agree with that i i i wouldn't be opposed to it at all it's just our bleeding heart liberals that would
fight it tooth tooth and nail you know
that's true
but uh well Lynn i've enjoyed talking with you i don't know how long we're supposed to carry on a conversation do you
it's three minutes and the clicker comes in when it's time to
oh well we'd better keep talking because i've not heard it have we have you heard it
yeah no
anyway we both a sort of agree on it don't we
about about random testing
yeah well do we agree or unless it's it's not me you know here we go again i mean
well you see i yeah yeah if you agree
yeah you know i believe that truck drivers and people that have even though teachers have other kids lives in their hands and if they come in stoned or they come in drunk
yeah
and there was an incident in my children's high school where a teacher stayed drunk
is that right
uh-huh
you just don't think of that happening with teachers
and yet
i really don't i when i think of drug testing i'm thinking of the
uh you know outside of education
uh well no it you know we are as susceptible a society as anybody else
sure sure i know that but uh you don't think of that first hand normally
and uh
yeah well did you hear on the news where the teacher of the year was up for child molestation
isn't that
it was on the news tonight
isn't that mind boggling goodness it it is it's mind boggling and well you know i agree with you i know
teachers are
just like everybody else same problems the same uh good qualities as anybody else
yeah
then i think you know if it came push came to shove i'd probably be drug tested
yeah yeah
you know because it does you know
you you think the benefit would be greater than the
yeah because you know as i say i'm sitting there fussing and fussing and yet i know of you know one teacher who was an alcoholic
uh-huh
in school as well as you know i presume out
and that was in your children's high school isn't that amazing
um-hum and you know my children brought it to my attention i never was there to see it
if it if it's if it was true there i'm sure it's true with just about probably to some degree every school there is
um-hum
you know because they represent a pretty good
uh
and that's not giving a good example to students
no certainly not uh certainly not
they don't need that example but
