[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Leaving aside for the moment the fact that this specific case was not about any illegal drug, yeah, I'd still have a problem with it. If they really have reason to believe the kid has drugs hidden on their body, then I expect them to call the police. I also expect them to call me.

Who knew it was not about illegal drugs till they discovered it was ibuprophen? I'd guess the school had no idea what 'drugs' the child had till they'd found them.


So... you don't think the cavity search is wrong, you just don't think it would yield results often enough to be worth the trouble?

I don't think it's appropriate, but I also don't think it'd yield anything 99.9% of the time.


More power to you. In this country, however, we have, or had, something called the Fourth Amendment. And I've had it up to here with moronic "zero tolerance" policies. If your son really were dealing heroin out of his jeans, would it really make a difference to have him cool his heels for an hour or two--yes, supervised, with somebody keeping an eye on him at all times--to do things RIGHT, you know, with due process and all that other lame shit, instead of somebody deciding they know how to handle it because they saw Law & Order?

I don't think it's anything to do with who watched what TV show. It might just have been a school trying to save a child from having to deal with police and other authorities. Perhaps this whole situation has been blown out of proportion by the usual suspects screaming about rights being violated when all they were trying to do was protect the child herself and the rest of the student population. Why didn't she just turn the pills over rather than needing to be strip searched?