High School Strip Search Case goes to Supreme Court

richlevy · 04-21-2009, 10:18 PM

I think that taking a 13-year-old honor student and destroying her faith in how the system is supposed to work is a heavy price to pay for supposed safety. If you read the second article, you will note that schools now have more powers than the police. Students in schools, which they are forced to go to by law, seem to have about the same rights prison inmates.

We used to have civics classes in school to instill respect for law and a regard for the Consitution. Now we are getting our students used to the idea that they must give up their rights to remain safe.

We are not talking about subduing a violent student. We are not talking even about a weapons search, or even a search for a 'controlled substance'. We are talking about a strip search for prescription strength ibuprofin based on hearsay.

By that standard, any citizen could be searched at any time just by having someone point to them and say 'I think he is holding drugs'.

Now if someone wants to cordon off a slice of country and make a reservation where people who wish to sign away most of their constitutional rights and those of their children in exchange for 'safety' can go, then do so. Until then please do not try to water down my constitution in exchange for a false sense of security.

BTW, just out of curiosity, what would they have done if the girl refused to be strip searched?

Alluvial · 04-21-2009, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

Students in schools, which they are forced to go to by law, seem to have about the same rights prison inmates.

Sure seems that way, doesn't it?

A few years ago, our older son was "written up" at High School. The charge? Coming to school under the influence ... OF NICOTINE.

That's right, a legal substance which the kid was old enough to smoke. They couldn't pop him for having tobacco on him (tobacco-free campus) so they tried to say that since he had smoked a cigarette on the way to school (in his own private vehicle) that he had come to school "under the influence".

These are strange times we live in.

04-21-2009, 10:18 PM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	I think that taking a 13-year-old honor student and destroying her faith in how the system is supposed to work is a heavy price to pay for supposed safety. If you read the second article, you will note that schools now have more powers than the police. Students in schools, which they are forced to go to by law, seem to have about the same rights prison inmates. We used to have civics classes in school to instill respect for law and a regard for the Consitution. Now we are getting our students used to the idea that they must give up their rights to remain safe. We are not talking about subduing a violent student. We are not talking even about a weapons search, or even a search for a 'controlled substance'. We are talking about a strip search for prescription strength ibuprofin based on hearsay. By that standard, any citizen could be searched at any time just by having someone point to them and say 'I think he is holding drugs'. Now if someone wants to cordon off a slice of country and make a reservation where people who wish to sign away most of their constitutional rights and those of their children in exchange for 'safety' can go, then do so. Until then please do not try to water down my constitution in exchange for a false sense of security. BTW, just out of curiosity, what would they have done if the girl refused to be strip searched? __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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