An Inclusive Litany
10/12/98
The Los Angeles Times
reports on some of the creative uses for the $6 billion earmarked as
part of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act: A Michigan
school district obtained $81,000 worth of giant plastic teeth and
tooth brushes. Police in Hammond, Louisiana, spent $6,500 on a
three-foot remote-control replica of a squad car. Virginia Beach,
Virginia, used the money to put extra lifeguards on duty. Students in
Richmond, Virginia, will now read a drug-free party guide that cost
taxpayers $16,000 to print and that includes tips on Jell-O wrestling
and holding pageants "where guys dress up in women's wear." Los
Angeles schools have a new van for transporting sports equipment and
have given away $16,000 in tickets to Disneyland and Dodger Stadium to
students who pledged to listen to their parents. Schools in Pinellas
County, Florida, can now have a full-time counselor for their
gay-student clubs. And students in Eureka, Utah, spent the afternoon
fishing rather than doing drugs.