We need to use the strength of Free Republic to do something about this other than bluster and carp. My proposal: Suggest to you state legislators that they pass a new law:
Whereas “zero tolerance policies” are out of control;
Whereas those policies are grossly unfair and serve only to create an adverse view of authority on the part of minors;
Whereas strip searching of a minor is uncalled for except in the most extreme circumstances;
Whereas policies that permit strip searching create an incentive for pedophiles to work in schools; and
Whereas some school administrators have shown abysmal lack of judgment, up to and including strip searching minors for suspected possession of legal pharmaceuticals such as aspirin and advil, the following shall be entered in the criminal code:
The strip searching of any minor by any school official, school empoloyee, contractor, security guard, police officer, or any other person for suspected possession by a minor on school grounds of legal pharmaceuticals shall be deemed gross sexual imposition upon a minor (or the relevant legal term in your state) and shall be prosecuted as such.
Upon the occurence of such an act, any principal, school administrator, or school board member who instituted, enforced, or otherwise facilitated any policy that permitted or encouraged the act shall be prosecuted as an accomplice to the crime of gross sexual imposition upon a minor (again, replace with relevant legal term in you state).
These school administrators love their zero tolerance policies. Let’s nail them with one with CRIMINAL teeth. They are apparently too stupid to learn and think on their own, so let’s FORCE them to. Thousands of letter (preferably) or e-mails asking for this law WILL have an impact.
That'd do it.
Now, how would they write that out "the school, one little girl, her panties"
Yeah, that'd be the ticket ~