10. Middle Schools Add a Team Rule: Get a Drug Test

The sport reporter at New York Times Mary Pilon inform the readers about the students' need to get a drug test before being in a sports team, that has being continued for several years. She first drags the readers' attention with an example of a student that had to take a slip of paper about the drug test when she decided to play sports at school. Then she goes on by giving some additional explanations about this rule that has been set. The drugs tests are believed to be like deterrent to the students, and it has an objective to create an awareness of drug prevention. The most common drugs exposed to the students are steroids, growth hormones, and marijuana. As the time goes by the number of schools that require drug testing is increasing, the money spent on it is also increasing. For this reason, the Department of Education has been helping financially providing the schools, some money to do the test. However, the author says that some experts have a doubt about the effectiveness of this test, and talk about some interviews of experts that state that this is not helping the students to stop using drugs. Then she ends her article informing us about some parents that are against the testing, but about some parents that require their children to do them, since the students are growing so fast nowadays.

The purpose of the writer in this article is to make the readers notice the problem of how the children are growing fast and the world is changing their generation as time goes by. The problem in this article which is the drug test is a indication of the great number students in middle and high school that are using drugs. The drugs such as growth hormone, steroid, and marijuana are in easy access to the children nowadays, and a great percentage in every school are users of the drugs. However, the drug testing is not helping this number decrease according to the experts, and it has not been the solution for this problem.