If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the school in the strip-search case?

Would you consider taking your kids out of school and home-schooling them? I think it's probably a moot point because I can't see this court siding with these psychotic school officials, but you never know. If this ever happened to my kid, I would physically assault the principal, and when I got out of jail, the first thing I'd do is go straight to his house and beat him within an inch of his life again.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103215199

Mutt

I probably would not pull my kids out of school. I have no patients to teach them myself, and can't afford private school. But, I would make the school administrations life extreme hell.

I didn't find this in your article, but here is one from the AP. There is one paragraph I found really interesting:

"A 1985 Supreme Court decision that dealt with searching a student's purse has found that school officials need only reasonable suspicions, not probable cause. But the court also warned against a search that is "excessively intrusive."

Legally, "reasonable suspicion" is less than "probably cause". In other words, schools need less of a reason to search backpacks and purses than the police would. In this case, another student pointed a finger at her and said she got the ibuprofen from this girl, and that was "reasonable suspicion". But, if one person pointed a finger at me and told the police I was selling meth from my house, that would not be "probable cause" for a non-warrant search. The police would have to get a judge to sign off.

Another interesting part of this paragraph is the "excessively intrusive" warning from the 1985 case. Hopefully the Court will consider this when they rule. I can't think of anyone that would find a strip search not to be excessively intrusive. The only thing that would have been more intrusive is if they did a cavity search also.

raviet31

For me it's not so much a question of whether strip searches are allowed or not, but whether it is reasonable to conduct a strip search looking for ibuprophen.

I mean I could buy a strip search in the event that someone was suspected of being in possession of a weapon. However, even then it should not be conducted by school staff and should be the realm of a law enforcement officer.

wizjp

Guess we can see how kids end up the way they do,

IN my generation, I'd have been the one who got my butt kicked for being in a position where I would even be considered for such an action,

BraxOwl

I already homeschool my children.

I hope and pray that the court rules in favor of the LAW which does not allow searches and seizures without probable cause and a warrant, and that they rule in favor of HUMAN RIGHTS, which even a child on school grounds is entitled to. They also circumvented parental rights, where the parents should have been notified and supplied permission before this was ever carried out.

I am thankful that my children are homeschooled, because I am certain that from the things my niece has been the victim of in this ONE school year, and the things I hear on the news and here at Yahoo! Answers, that I would be in jail if my children were the victims of such incidents.

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