By Chrissy Payne
Round Table reporter

The other night I was watching television with my Dad and as he was flipping through the channels he stopped on the channel that airs the Frederick county school board meeting. The new members of the board were being shown. One of them in particular, Brad Young, who had been surrounded with controversy in the summer of 2009 for an alcohol incident that happened when he was head softball, coach at Walkersville high school.

During this board meeting he did not follow the agenda, I could tell by watching it the new member of the school board had one thing on his mind, and that was to abolish and do away with the FCPS student alcohol policy.

Seeing this happen it made sense why he would want to do away with the alcohol policy, but as a high school student I didn’t understand who would agree with this.

The alcohol policy is put in place to keep athletes from using and participating in alcohol and drugs; hoping that students won’t take the chance of being caught in order to stay in the game.

Most would think that this is put in place as a positive reinforcement, and as a student I don’t understand why any adult especially a board member would want this policy to be abolished.

As a high school student I’ve seen students have to sit out because of the alcohol policy. Most students sit out for the required twenty percent of the season, and that’s the last time they violate the policy.

The way I see it, without the student alcohol policy students have nothing holding them back when it comes to making decisions about alcohol and drugs.

The student alcohol policy should be kept in FCPS and just because of someone’s past doesn’t mean it should be done away with forever.