It's My Body

Setting: High School classroom during a meeting for winter sports

Players: Girls' basketball coach--Coach Champ,

Boys' basketball coach--Coach Winner,

Players--Jack and Jill

Coach Champ: All of you players need to know that at any time we can require you to give us a urine sample.

Jack: No way! That is an invasion of our privacy.

Coach Winner: The United States Supreme Court says we can do it and we will.

Jill: Why are you doing this?

Coach Champ: To test for drug use among the athletes.

Jack: I didn't think we had a drug problem in this school

Coach Winner: We don't, but we are going to test so we can keep drugs out.

Jill: I don't think the United States Supreme Court allows you to do that.

Coach Champ: The school lawyers, Joanie Cochran and Mark Clark, say we can legally do this.

Jack: Those two got their law degrees by correspondence courses.

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1. Who's right, the coaches or the students? See Vernonia v. Acton, 115 Supreme Court Reporter, Page 2386.

2. Additional activity: Have the students read the Vernonia decision and list the necessary criteria for allowing the urine testing.