Wisconsin high school students tested for alcohol consumption before entering school dance

By Staff Writer

Randomly-selected teenagers in Wisconsin had to pass an alcohol test to get into their homecoming dance this past weekend.

According to TMJ4, a NBC news affiliate based out of Milwaukee, one of 10 students who attended a high school dance were administered a saliva test to determine whether teenagers had consumed alcohol prior to the event. If a student failed the two-minute procedure, he or she would be referred to the school's police liaison officer.

The saliva test was proposed by the school's student senate when faced with the possibility of no more dances, following a slew of alcohol-related incidents during past events. One such incident involved intoxicated male students "doing things like going under girls' dresses," one senior told the news provider.

Several teenagers felt that it was unfair that innocent students had to be tested when only a small number of kids chose to drink before dances. Parents, on the other hand, had no objections to random testing.

"Nobody wants to hear that any of the kids were driving after that or doing something foolish in the gym,” one mother said.

According to the most recent data compiled by Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD), approximately 29 percent of high school students in the U.S. has ridden - at least once - in a vehicle that was driven by someone who had been drinking alcohol.