Dave Kindred

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Vernonia School Dist. 47J v. Acton, giving schools the right to test athletes for drugs, is unfair, Dave Kindred asserts in the following viewpoint. Kindred contends that drug tests violate students’ rights because students can be tested without having shown evidence of substance abuse. Kindred maintains that student-athletes submit to these tests because they lack the political power and legal backing to fight infringements of their rights. He also claims that drug use is not prevalent among student-athletes and that testing athletes is the wrong approach to addressing the larger issue of preventing drug use among young people. Kindred is a writer for the Sporting News and the author of several sports books.

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