13-year-old's school strip-search case heads to Supreme Court - CNN.com

Ok, total soapbox warning to start with, you don’t want to hear my opinion, move along now.

So, the quick story is…. this 13 yr old honors student was accused by another student of providing prescription strength ibuprofen to classmates at school.  She denied it, and wound up strip searched, to the point of exposing her breasts to school officials, by officials I mean a school nurse (who are rarely RN’s anymore) and the principal’s assistant.

 

No one was in danger.

 

No property damage was imminent.

 

Honor student, no prior discipline issues.

 

This is absolutely INSANE.

 

Yes, zero tolerance for drugs at school is a good idea.  However, I now feel the need to teach MY 13 year old daughter to tell school officials no (hell no is ok too) to a strip search under any circumstances.  Make them hold her down first.  If the risk to the students were so huge, and the compelling evidence was so, well, compelling, then CALL THE POLICE, that is THIER job.

 

This school has made themselves look like arrogant pedophiles.  And now, to defend their actions all the way to the supreme court is simply embarrassing.  I don’t care if they found the ibuprofen.  I don’t care if they found crack.  Still not ok to do this.  (oh and for the record, no drugs were found, yes NO DRUGS WERE FOUND)

 

Ok, search backpacks.  Lockers.  Desks.  I can totally go along with those.  Pat down the exterior of a student if the risk is big enough.  But except under the threat of imminent physical harm to PEOPLE at the school, under no circumstances should the school be strip-searching our children.

 

I would love to hear the school’s explanation on how this particular scenario creates a better learning environment, this assault on a child.  That’s what it is. I will stop just short of calling for sexual offender status for the adults involved, but it would be pretty easy to convince me of that.

 

Anyone else curious as to what become of the other student that offered up this girl?  My guess is one girl was mad at the other for looking at the wrong boy or wearing the wrong clothes or some other stupid teenage girl nonsense. 

 

13-year-old's school strip-search case heads to Supreme Court - CNN.com

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