High School Strip Search Case goes to Supreme Court

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by Aliantha

Something needs to be done about drugs in school.

Welcome to The War On Drugs, ladies and gentlemen. Extremism in defense of loss of liberty is no vice.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

So it turned out to be nothing this time, but how bout next time when they do find cocain or heroin? Will there be any uproar then?

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.

Originally Posted by Aliantha

I don't agree with cavity searches. I think kids that're that serious about dealing drugs would do it outside of school hours, plus most school kids wouldn't want to buy something that came out of another students arsehole would they? (I'm sure there'd be a few though)

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?

Originally Posted by Aliantha

If they thought my son had drugs in his posession I'd have no objection to a same sex teacher doing a strip search.

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?