Student Searches

Students, like in the case of Samantha Redding, should not be subjected to unreasonable searches. Samantha Redding was strip searched and embarrassed when strip searched under false accusations. Probable cause was not evident and this was clearly a mistake by the school. Subjecting a girl in eighth grade to a strip search can be truly costly. The feelings of uncomfert will carry through Samantha forever. What the school did was rape her. They made her expose her private parts for no clear reason. Also, Samantha Miller did not know the reason of her search. Her feelings of confusion and uncomfert were the result of a search taht unvealed nothing. What would they have done if they found prescribed pills? Most likely, the pills would have been prescribed to her. They were looking for evidence that would not have solved anything. There would have been no proof that the pills that she had were the same as the ones that were found on the student.

Also, the case of the Missouri school  and random lockdowns shows students a bad lessson. When students are subject to searches like this, they are presented with unamerican values. These suspicionless searches completely go against the Fourth Amendment. There is no reason for these searches and the students are subjected to exactly the opposite of what they are learning in school. Schools should insure that students have constitutional rights, at least to some extent.