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That is so wrong--and inhumane. I agree in every aspect that there are no redeeming aspects.

But speaking from my own experience--it is not done that way in my middle school or in the local high schools in VA.

The concern I have with the legislation is that it DOESN'T restrict that kind of thing. I have no problem with the schools escorting a child to the main office and even setting a watch on that particular student and his locker (lest friends try to bail him out) until the proper authorities and parents can be contacted but I do not think that school officials should be given the power to search like police have.

Another problem I have with random searches is of one student planting drugs in another's locker, either by breaking in or slipping something in through the vents. Then he could blow in the set up student who would be innocent. This could ruin a kids life.

Coming in for searches without good cause and reasonable suspicion is kind of like the *Find me the man and I'll find the crime* mentality. It endangers the whole innocent until proven guilty philosophy.

"But speaking from my own experience--it is not done that way in my middle school or in the local high schools in VA"

Not yet...But with this new law protecting school officials and police from outrages like what occured in SC, prepare your students to submit to the barrel of a gun.

Not one school official nor one police official was punished for what occured at that SC high school prior to this law. Obviously it wasn't a common transgression by school officials or police for fear of lawsuits and dismissals. But with this new law to protect them, abuses of children like that witnessed in my 260 will be coming to a school near you very soon.