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Drug Testing: Discrimination on Athletes The policy of drug testing in high schools has become a much heated topic of discussion over the past few years. Schools are attempting to stop the use of drugs by randomly testing students in their schools. The majority of the drug testing going on around the nation involves students that take part in sports and other extracurricular activities. This practice exhibits a complete lack of fairness and trust towards young athletes. Drug use obviously does go on with high school students, but singling out athletes for a random drug test is not the solution. Drug Testing Background In the summer of 2002 the Supreme Court made it legal for the 23 million high schools and middle schools to receive a drug test before joining an extracurricular activity. This comes just seven years after schools were granted permission to take random urinalysis tests. Although this way of testing (urinalysis) only affects about 5% of the nation’s high schools, my school, ?, uses the policy. (Washington pg1). The main controversy coming out of this ruling has to do with the 4th Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights. The 4th Amendment states that U.S. citizens are guaranteed a right agai