Random drug testing for Morton athletes
April 22, 2019
Next year, Morton District 201 will start performing random drug tests to Morton athletes.
Over the years the usage of drugs in teens has increased. Why do teenagers use drugs? There are countless reasons. Many are reacting to peer pressure and believe turning to drugs and alcohol is how to become popular in high school. Some use drugs to self-medicate from painful feelings. Some teens even turn to study aid drugs like Adderall or Ritalin, because they believe these substances will boost their grades. High school is often the first time that kids encounter illicit substances and the curiosity can be too much to resist. The reason Morton will start requiring students’ athletes to participate in a drug test for reasons for lack of winning games. Considering that nearly 3,300 teens try weed for the first time every day, it’s an undeniable problem that’s impacting high schoolers everywhere. In a random survey 100 Morton athletes, 81 say that they take some sort of drug during the season and 19 do not use any type of drug.
“Before my soccer games, I take some bumps to give me that extra juice” Anonymous Soccer player from Morton.
“I personally don’t do drugs, but I know some people in the track team shoot up steroids before a meet.” said senior Ashley Morales
“I noticed that since I started smoking, I’ve been having trouble trying to catch up with my team during practice and it’s really hard to breathe.” said anonymous senior football player.
DISCLAIMER: This MortONION article is entirely fabricated — false. Be careful of FAKE NEWS! Don’t spread lies.
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Isaac Carnalla • May 9, 2019 at 1:41 pm
Some schools actually do require that their athletes get drug tested so I can see a to why it might be believable but the quotes they used you can tell that the article is to be fake because of what the students had to say in their responses. In my opinion the article is fake but it does have a lot of information that would make it seem believable.
Adriana Robles • Apr 23, 2019 at 9:44 am
A reason i thought this article was believable was because they are talking about how it is common for teenagers to use and try drugs, I know this article is fake because the quotes are talking about morton students that know of other morton students doing drugs and i doubt the school would let this be published they would have to investigate.
Vannity Bahena • Apr 22, 2019 at 11:37 am
One thing I found believeable is that, I do think teachers can get drug tested, but i question why would teachers do what they do if any time they can get drug tested. I will not believe this if someone shared it.
Jackie Murillo • Apr 22, 2019 at 11:20 am
Some high schools do require their athletes to take a drug test for reasonable reasons, which is very understandable. This is why some people might believe this article is real. However, some people might think this article is fake because some statements are not that realistic, if students are doing drugs most likely they are not going to tell anyone especially if they are being interviewed its just common since. I honestly would think this article is real because like i said before many school are starting to require this. Therefore, i would not be surprised if Morton was to take this action.