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A weekly random drug testing program begins at Vista and Rancho Buena Vista with the help of a three-year federal grant awarded to the Vista Unified School District by the U.S. Department of Education.
This school is the second district in North County which accepts the drug-testing program with government money. The Oceanside Unified School District reinstated its drug testing program this school year at both Oceanside and El Camino after receiving more than $175,000 from the School-Based Student Drug-Testing Program.
Vista's program is suppossed to start in early March with the first-year total grant of $211,000 being divided by the two schools. The amount coming to the district for the second year is $194,846. For the third and final year it's $196,976 for a total of $602,822.
The money may not be used for anything other than the drug testing program for students.
Unlike Oceanside's program, which includes just athletes in its testing pool, any student involved in an extracurricular activity at Vista and Rancho Buena Vista is subject to testing. That includes ASB classes, yearbook, speech and debate, cheerleaders, newspaper, drama, choir, dance, band, internship, work experience, academic team, the AVID program and athletics.
Co-curricular activities, or nonperformance clubs, like the French Club or Latin Club, will not be subject to testing.
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Eventually, parents of students outside of the groups to be tested can volunteer their child to be included in the program.Pat Moramarco, the athletic director at Vista, and Dave Whiddon, the athletic director at Rancho Buena Vista, will be the site administrators. Moramarco and Whiddon have both given up two periods as teachers to coordinate their programs.
Each week, 12 students will be randomly selected for testing by Healthworks, which is overseeing the testing and the results. The urine samples will be tested for alcohol, opiates, cocaine, methamphetamines, marijuana and PCP. One or two samples will also be tested for steroids.
"It's a great deterrent,'' Moramarco said. "These days peer pressure is enormous, and it's probably why we need this.
''Students must sign two consent forms ---- one for the test and another for the result to be part of the post-year survey. It will be part of the clearance process before the first practice, along with passing a physical and proof of insurance.
"You simply can't participate in an activity if you don't sign the consent forms,'' Moramarco said.
A first offense will result in counseling for the student, who would remain eligible to participate. Only the student, the school nurse and the parents are notified after a first offense.
The site administrator is notified only after a student fails a second test in the same year. The student receives a five-day suspension. For an athlete, that would include at least one game.
After 30 days, that student must test clean twice before he or she can return to the activity.
A third failed test means the student is ineligible for the remainder of the school year.
Athletes out of season are still subject to testing.
A refusal to submit a urine sample will be considered a negative result.
"I like that it's focused on education,'' Whiddon said. "It's real positive for our campus, especially after the results the football team had.
''The football coaches at Rancho Buena Vista instituted drug testing a year ago. According to head coach Tom Haman, the team will continue its own testing program, as will the Longhorns wrestling and baseball teams. Haman would not say if there had been any offenses on the football team.
Plans are still being worked out as to which days will become testing days.
Early noticeWhen the 2005 All-State Football Team was announced last week by Cal-Hi Sports, sophomore Wally So'oto of Carlsbad was named to the All-State Underclass Team.
What made the selection a bit curious was the fact that the 6-foot, 255-pound linebacker played the entire regular season on the Lancers' junior varsity.
He was called up to the varsity for the postseason run to the CIF Division I title.
"I noticed him in the championship game (at Qualcomm Stadium) and thought he showed a lot of promise,'' said Mark Tennis of Cal-Hi Sports, who helped choose the team.
Source: North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
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