December 21, 2008
Hawaii teachers take pay raise, fight drug testing
HONOLULU - Hawaii public school teachers signed off on first-in-the-nation statewide random drug testing in exchange for pay raises, but now the state says the educators are trying to take the money and run.
Since the teachers' union approved the pact nearly two years ago, they've accepted the 11 percent boost in pay while fighting the random tests as an illegal violation of their privacy rights. No teacher has been tested.
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No one should be compelled to prove themselves innocent in this country. No one. Period. The US was founded on principles such as this one. They have not changed.
By the way, everyone still has the right to own a gun. That hasn't changed, either. Unlike many hypocritical liberals, I don't pick and choose which parts of the Bill of Rights I think should stand. It's all good.
I hope they keep their pay raise, too. No "deal" of this nature should have ever even been considered valid in this nation and under our rules.