its just not right. schools shouldnt even have the right to TOUCH students unless they present a danger to others. unless school officials see some present danger on students they shouldnt even bother them

While I recognize that students do not have the same rights as adults, or even as minors out of school, officials are not trained in the law or in systems of searching. If a student needs to be searched, involve the police.

Of course, you want your schools to be safe. And the only way to secure this is to search students. Because we don't want drugs and alcohol and weapons in our schools, right? School officials have every legal right to search a student under REASONABLE SUSPICION.

Unless you're a student who has been searched before, I wouldn't expect you to know how many school officials ABUSE and TAKE ADVANTAGE OF that legal right.

Students, though most are minors, deserve more legal rights for search & seizure and school officials shouldn't have free range to frisk and bother students without concrete evidence.

Children do not have the same rights as adults in USA. Heck, even adults get searched & patted down whenever they try & get on a plane or go somewhere that might house a lot of people (like a stadium, etc.).

I personally don't have a problem with children being searched, scanned, or wanded for their own safety. I also don't have a problem with random locker searches by school officials or specific locker searches that the police want to conduct. It is a sad state of affairs that are schools aren't safe enough these days though.

If a student is suspected to have something dangerous, officials have the right to check them, and that is the way it should be.

If that student had drugs or weapons, then they should be allowed to search them. They wouldn't allow dangerous teenagers running wild and causing havoc here and there.Its just safe for other people.