Many schools across the nation and right here in the Ozarks do it, but drug testing is still a controversial issue.

  Bolivar High School is the latest to consider random drug testing, but before the school board votes, the public had chance to speak.

  At a Thursday meeting actions and inactions spoke much louder than words.

  The parking lot was packed and more than 200 people passed through the halls of Bolivar High School Thursday night.

  "The turn-out has been very nice."

  Not one stopped in the auditorium.

  "We've had 40 vendors so that's exciting for a Thursday evening," explains Brenda Hunter.

  Her first annual Ladies Spring Show, held inside the high school, was touted as a great success.

  "It gets PCP, it gets cocaine."

  BHS Principal David Geurin was planning on presenting a powerpoint presentation to parents and the public about a new random drug testing policy he hopes to implement.

  "We've had long-term suspensions because of kids in possession of drugs here at school."

  Apparently Geurin's solution doesn't have a very vocal opposition.

  So he called it quits before he got started, but not on the policy.

  That will go to a vote of the school board next Thursday.

   Members will decide whether to administer urine tests to students in extra-curriculars, co-curriculars like band and choir, and those with parking passes or parental consent.

  "I think they will probably include 80% or more of our student population.  In fact I think it could be close to 90%," Geurin tells us.

  Geurin wants to budget about $5,000 a year for drug testing.

  He hopes the money will come from activity fees.

  Tests will run about $10 to $15 a student and will be administered by the test kit company.

  State lawmakers are now mulling over a bill to drug test teachers as well.