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Posted on 04/18/2009 12:38:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
Supreme Court to weigh strip-searches at schools
In an Arizona case, officials were worried about campus safety, while the student felt embarrassment.
By David G. Savage April 18, 2009
Reporting from Safford, Ariz. -- When Savana Redding, now 19, talks of what happened to her in eighth grade, it is clear that the painful memories linger.
She speaks of being embarrassed and fearful and of staying away from school for two months. And she recalls the "whispers" and "stares" from others in this small eastern Arizona mining town after she was strip-searched in the nurse's office because a vice principal suspected she might be hiding extra-strength ibuprofen in her underwear.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear her case. Its decision, the first to address the issue of strip-searches in schools, will set legal limits, if any, on the authority of school officials to search for drugs or weapons on campus.
If limits on searches are imposed, the school district warns, its ability to keep all drugs out of its schools would be reduced.
In this case, said school district lawyer Matthew Wright, the vice principal was concerned because one student had gotten seriously ill from taking unidentified pills.
"That was the driving force for him. If nothing had been done, and this happened to another kid, parents would have been outraged," Wright said.
In California and six other states, strip-searches of students are not permitted.
Only once in the past has the high court ruled on a school-search case, and it sounds quaint now. It arose in 1980 when a New Jersey girl was caught smoking in the bathroom, and the principal searched her purse for cigarettes.
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Strip searching minors has to be ‘weighed’?
Extra Strength Ibuprofen in her underwear...? Shouldn’t that be Asspirins...?
They strip search teens for aspirin but give free rides to kill their unborn baby without their parents knowledge.
BIZARRO WORLD!!!!!
Was the school not equipped with phones, preventing a call to her parents first?
I consider what was done to this young lady to be child abuse.
damn... i wish i was back in high school. way back when i really coulda used the line ‘but baby... it’s legal... you have to strip down’
/sarc
nice to see the libtards have the eye on the important issues of the day.
since when did nambla members get hired into schools?!
(and there are some people that don’t believe fistgate ever happened)
Agree with you 100% They are just lucky it wasn’t my daughter......the sexual aspect of this makes it sick...
Memo to School Administrators: Anyone doing this to my kid had better have an excellent health plan with lifetime disability coverage.
No joke.
Yep. I find it to be one step over the doorway to sexual abuse of a minor. Outrageous.
Remember this case?
They should be considering criminal charges instead of a monetary suit. This is sexual predation.
If limits on searches are imposed, the school district warns, its ability to keep all drugs out of its schools would be reduced.
Sounds like they're salivating at the prospect of unlimited strip searches of children.
"If it keeps one student from catching a buzz it will be worth it. Like, todally worth it, Dude!"
More freaking pedophile empowerment. Extra strength ibuprophen? And you notice the tenor of how this stupid article is written? Like the previous writer said, we are on Bizarro World. “It am up if it am down.”
This Vice Principal should be in jail. If there was any reason to do an extensive search to find contraband...he should have called the police.
Unfortunately, too many focus on the teachers... and not the administrators...on the problems with our schools. There are too many administrators to begin with...and most are incompetent
It should be noted, also, that some states make it EASIER for school personnel to get away with some of this sexual predator stuff on children....such as “reporting sexual abuse comitted by a school employee”....Florida makes it hard for school employees to get busted for child abuse and sexual abuse on children
As others have said “To liberals “1984” isn’t a warning it’s a guidebook.”
I am glad I home school. I pity the fool that put his hands on Sassy or tried to tell her to take off her clothes. I don’t know who they would have to fear most...me or Joe. I know it would not end well.
I’ll fly out there and help you.
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