Ive been following the Higher education act recently. For anyone not familiar with it. Part of it’s provisions suspends the financial aid for anyone convicted of a drug crime. The aid could be restored by completion of a drug treatment program and random drug screenings for a period. Now IMHO, I think this is patently unfair. There are no such provisions for rapist, molesters or murderers (cruel and unusual punishment). It also seems like a case of being punished twice for the same crime (double jeapardy). Also what about all the people who have used and not been caught(selective enforcement). Im interested to hear opinions. Oh yeah and editors please move this wherever it should rightfully belong. Im pretty new to posting here and figured here was as good as anyother.
Actually, this is a huge mess because they haven’t figured out how to enforce this, how to check up on the answers, etc. Apparently a whole slew of students left the drug questions blank on their financial aid form this year, and technically the colleges can’t process the form until it’s filled in completely…
The Chronicle of Higher Ed had some piece on this lately.
I am a little tired of legislators deciding the appropriate way to address drug use and create additional deterrents to it. They never get it right.