Drug testing -- for school board members

After a school board member and his wife, a Newport teacher, were accused of allowing juveniles to drink alcohol in their home, Newport Independent Schools reacted quickly by adopting a tougher student code of conduct that would apply to students' off-campus behavior and may include drug testing.

A parent suggested adding employees to the drug testing. But why not add school board members -- in fact, why not start with them?

If the charges prove true, and board member Jim Hesch and middle school teacher Helen Hesch allowed juveniles -- including their son -- to drink in their home, it is among the worst examples of adults contributing to the dangerous behavior of minors. Who knows what lifelong battles with substance abuse may come out of this?

The Newport administration is right to use this painfully embarrassing incident to send a strong message to kids, but the kids weren't the only ones at fault.

Adults who think it's cool to party with adolescents are pathetic. When they behave as adolescents, they should be punished as adolescents.