What new “entrance exam” has Pennsville Memorial High School enacted this year?
The school is requiring that all students pass an alcohol-detection test before they enter the prom. 2. Have these kinds of alcohol detection tests been successful in preventing bad behavior at school functions? Yes. Schools that use alcohol-detection devices report that drinking before proms dropped to near-zero once they were put in place. 3. Some students, parents, and organizations have objected to the use of alcohol-detection tests at school events. What are their arguments against the use of these tests? They say it erodes students’ privacy rights and fosters a guilty-until-proved-innocent atmosphere in schools. 4. What have legal experts and state courts said about such testing of students? Some legal experts say that because of a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that schools must have a specific reason to target a selected group of students for drug testing, alcohol screening at proms is of questionable legality. In New Jersey, a recent Supreme Court ruling upheld the
