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Article: Student pledge - invasion of privacy?(controversy over high school pledge not to smoke, drink or take drugs as requirement for extracurricular activities)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- February 14, 1994
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To school officials in Fairfax County, Va., the idea seemed natural. Students in high school athletics had to take a pledge not to smoke, drink, or take drugs. So why shouldn't those in other extracurricular activities take the same pledge? After all, participants in extracurricular activities are supposed to set an example for others. And the pledge merely commits students to do what is right.
The pledge reads: "As a participant in the extracurricular activities program ... I pledge to remain free of alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs, and to exhibit good citizenship at all times." The penalty for violating the pledge was suspension from extracurricular ...