Enda’s school drugs proposal failed test in US

FINE Gael leader Enda Kenny’s proposal for mandatory drug testing of schoolchildren is reactionary and anti-youth.

Does he want checkpoints outside every school? Randomly stop every kid on the street? Turn teachers and principals into law enforcement officers?

This is a recipe for trouble, and is yet another of those crackpot ideas politicians often float before an election.

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