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reply to "williamc" Strip Searches In Schools It is right to be searched if you under suspicion of drug possesion. If you do have drugs hidden in your locker not only does it put yourself at risk but also other students.Yes, it may be a bit embarassing, but it makes the school overall a bit safer. It is wrong for police to be speeding and talking on phones. Does it mean just because they do it, that it's correct? No, it doesnt. -reply by swimmerquerry...
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That's ewie to begin with, but if it's entirely necessary (it is possible to smuggle things around with you in various..er...crevices), the police should go about it. Preferably, a medical professional or someone who won't intimidate the student by the ordeal. And it has to be a man to a man and a woman to a woman for privacy reasons or the student should be offered that instead of turning over the drugs or whatever.
Ugh, it's an icky idea from the beginning. I don't know what I'm prattling about. I'd never subject to that kind of search. Nor would I have drugs in the first place though...:/
I am fine with drug dogs searching lockers, but strip searching is going a little too far. And about leaving it to the parents, what if the parents are disgruntled and are drug addicts themselves or alcoholics. They might abuse the kid or something, really this is an etchy issue. It has its good and bad sides and no one will ever win the debate on this.
If its drugs than its a resonable cause for the cops to do whatever. But I wouldn't go as far as strip searching students. I would get pissed if I was searched like that. I would sue them for like public humiliation. lol. idiots. anyways they shouldn't do that neither make it legal for them to do that.
QUOTE anyways they shouldn't do that neither make it legal for them to do that. you right it shouldn't be legal, but in most places it is.
I don't think that is right at all. The dogs and the lockers are alright but the strip search is really not necessary. I would feel absolutely violated if I was being under a strip search and to be found out that I didn't have anything on me.
I also think it's wrong because alot of students are under aged and that just really wouldn't be right at all. Even if they are guilty of having it on them they still shouldn't have to resort to strip searching. The dogs should be able to smell it out anyways so they really don't need it. A dogs scent can't be masked by whatever you're hiding... no matter where you have it. Unless you swallow it maybe... but I doubt you're going to get anywhere with a strip search if it's swallowed. So in a nut shell... I believe it's wrong, and sick.
I don't think students should be strip searched. Dogs checking lockers and bags is fine, but not if the police then go and just chuck everything out to try and find drugs. I keep all my coursework in my locker, as do all the other students at my school and it would be awful if there work was wrecked just for the police to check a locker.
I think if they do find anything they should speak to the parents and confront the student when they get home, not at school.
I don't know, i guess i should be against it, but i am not. As long as they dont go invading your stuff just to do it, i think its fine. You never know what someone can be hiding. I can easily hide many things in my pockets let alone my backpack. Many students have smuggled in alchohalic drinks, many deal drugs, many do drugs at the school...And just knowing that i used to be a part of it all, i think it should be stopped.
Schools shoudnt even have to do this, our future really has no hope.. The only thing im against is getting in trouble for like aspirin, or anything like that. I have had friends who got in trouble for caring around pills like midol and motrin, and aspirin...meanwhile kids 5 people down probably have E in their back pocket.
That is going way too far. I don't think that schools should be able to do that. I don't think anyone should be able to do that, without incredibly good reason. Even so, I'd feel so violated because of it. It seems wrong to me. Very very wrong.
As for the getting in trouble for over the counter drugs like aspirin and midol and all that... that's going over the edge too. I live with pain everyday... if I didn't have my meds, I wouldn't be functioning all that well. There was a long time during highschool that my routine was, wake up, take a couple aspirin and then get ready for school. I'd take the pills with me too, because typically, I'd be having more during class if the pain returned. So, if someone thought they were illegal drugs, and then searched my locker, I wouldn't think that was so bad. They are just trying to keep the bad stuff out of the kid's hands. But if they didn't find anything, and did a strip search... I couldn't imagine anything more humiliating.  But a lot of students, especially highschoolers bring those with them anyway. After about 2 months from the start of the schoolyear, my school did a "secret" inspection on us. They told us some stupid reason and we went out of our classroom. They started searching our bags. Then, when we reentered, they felt our pockets and stuff. It's not new here, in my old school, they did the same, only then, we had to take our stuff from our pockets too. Then they told us, "We took some phones, and we know some of you have their phones there. We'll be waiting for you in the Principal's Office this dismissal. You know yourselves..." Then of course, out of fear, the people who brought cellphones went...We never had drug searches... It's something that's too bizzare to happen to this all-girl's school with hardly any students.  Hehe... Even so... I don't like the idea being searched like this. It's embarassing... They see your stuff... It's really a violation of privacy.
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Strip Searches In Schools It is right to be searched if you under suspicion of drug possesion. If you do have drugs hidden in your locker not only does it put yourself at risk but also other students.Yes, it may be a bit embarassing, but it makes the school overall a bit safer. It is wrong for police to be speeding and talking on phones. Does it mean just because they do it, that it's correct? No, it doesnt. QUOTE (B-T @ Aug 18 2005, 02:59 PM)  do u think it's right that if a drug dog thinks there is drugs in a locker and the police search it and don't find any the student should be strip searched?what if they didn't find any drugs on the student eighther. i personaly don't think it's right 4 a student to be strip searched. even if they may have drugs. i think they should let the parents handle it.
what do u think? First off I don't think it should be done in the school, a kid can become tramatized by that not to mention the ridicule they'll go through with there friends. If it has to be done it should be done at a Hospital or doctors office someone the parents are familiar with.. I do think the law and Police have gotten way out of hand to begin with. police break the law more then you or I combined. they drive around ( no seat belts) they talk on the cell phone while driving ( you or i would get a hefty fine if it was us ) they speed on the roads for no reason except there off duty and that puts us at risk of accidents or kids playing as well.. theres just no law for the police... 
There are laws against students becoming randomly strip searched. First of all, there has to be reasonable cause. You can't just have somebody come up and say this dude has such and such in his locker, it has to be proven by having a couple people say it, and then you can search the locker. They are very uptight even about searching locker. However, if you are suspicious enough to be searched, that's your own fault, you shouldn't have been so suspicious.
There are procedures that go along with search and seizure acts. First off cop usually has to be same gender, has to be in closed off area, and really, thats it. It's not like they are going to make you take off to your naked skin, they only make you take off pants and shirt, shoes, maybe socks, thats really it, its a simple search. Personally going through this search numerous times, it is a pain in the butt, but hey, you get out of class. Honestly, I think it should be enforced. Anything to scare kids away from drugs like that would be great. Just telling them about how bad drugs are will make them want to do them more, but if you do checks like this, maybe they will be way too scared and they will see the reality. Personally at my high school, we had arrests made nearly weekly in our classes, the officer stationed at our school would come to the classroom, as the student to stand up, handcuff him, walk out, and we would continue our classroom discussion. Some schools are way better then that I suppose, but that's not the way it was for us. Barely any of these arrests were due to drugs though, more violence and harassment issues as our school wanted to cut that down to way way minimum. But anyways, I would definatly support strip searches in schools if it keeps illegal activity amongst teenagers down.
Don't like the idea about having to expose everything just for law enforcement do the job.
I would say that I need a consent from parents and see if they agree. Also, what kind of school may that be? What age and what background? It will vary my personal opinion.
The way I see it,anything that would involve the police and legalities
would be legal to do.That's the way the law works. These days it's perfectly feasible that the cheap price of crack would have it easily becoming an epidemic in the schools. Student or not,there is no lower scum than a crack dealer. Personally I wouldn't worry about a bit of weed,but narcotics are a different story. These narcotics will screw people over for life.I say stop it at the source.
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