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WASHINGTON (CNN) — A 13-year-old Arizona girl who was strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain reliever will have her case heard at the Supreme Court.
The justices accepted the case Friday for review. They will decide whether a campus setting gives school administrators greater discretion to control students suspected of illegal activity than police are allowed in cases involving adults in public spaces.
Arguments are expected to be heard in April.
At issue is whether school administrators are constitutionally barred from conducting searches of students investigated for possessing or dealing drugs that are banned on campus.
A federal appeals court found the search “traumatizing” and illegal.
Some parents say older children deserve the same constitutional rights as adults, but educators counter that a school setting always has been treated differently by the courts. They say a ruling against them could jeopardize campus safety.
This case made it to the SCOTUS??? WTF?
Found by Jay from Cage Match.
eh just have the girl say that the teacher touched them orthat there were security cameras. bam instant child pr0n case.
I am a person who had chronic Migraine(s) from 8 thru 18 years of age. Chiropractor latter told me it was a pinched nerve in my neck that caused contraction of blood vessels to the brain. Do you believe that? Being a kid really sucked arse for me. 13 years old is way too old to be striped searched for Ibuprofen give me a break. Unless it was to prevent a suicide?
#6 You pretty much got to the heart of the problem.
Some days I am truly amazed, other days I just shake my head at the stupidity. NOT ONE OF THE ABOVE 22 POSTS HAVE EVEN READ THE EFFEN ARTICLE !!!!!!!!!!!
A student was caught with some prescription strength ibuprofen. She said the girl in the suit gave it to her. The girl denied it and was then ordered by the Principal to be stripped in front of the school nurse and another female. Although she still wore her bra and panties, they were pulled out for inspection.
There was no rape. There was no ooggling by males. And most of all, there were no drugs found.
The question is whether a school needs more than an unsubstantiated suspicion to strip search a minor without the parents knowledge or permission. As the Appeals Court said:
“The overzealousness of school administrators in efforts to protect students has the tragic impact of traumatizing those they claim to serve. And all this to find prescription-strength ibuprofen.”
How many of you would want your 13 yr/o daughter to be strip searched without any rights?
make the pervert who strip-searched the child register as a sex offender, because only pervert would ever do such a thing and only a pervert would approve of it.
#24, grog,
Wake up !!! It is just a bad dream.
You haven’t read the article either, have you?
A 13-year-old Arizona girl who was strip-searched by school officials
that’s all anybdoy needs to read
you clearly don’t have a daughter.
if this happened to my daughter the responsible party would have a baseball bat in their face.
btw, fusion
yep, i read the article. honor student kid humiliated by the people who she is supposed to respect and be educated by.
did i miss anything?
are you saying that strip searching little girl’s is okay?
Never underestimate the drive of an angry mother.
If this had happened to my daughter, the question wouldn’t be are schools allowed to strip search children. The question would be how many years I would be getting for taking a ball bat to the principal’s skull.
Seriously, the mindset of these assholes needs to change from “I’m just following orders” to “Gee, if I strip search this girl because I think she has some freaking advil, an enraged parent is likely to hunt me down like a wild animal.” But no, don’t worry…won’t happen since we’ve become a nation of sheep with a fetish for doing as we’re told.
I hear there is a perfectly sea worthy beer cooler available to set the school officials adrift in.
#28, grog,
yep, i read the article. honor student kid humiliated by the people who she is supposed to respect and be educated by.
did i miss anything?
Yes. You want to take a baseball bat to the school nurse. Plus you insist she is a pervert. There is nothing in the article suggesting there was anything untoward about sex and, in fact, the principal took steps to ensure there was none.
This would not happen to my daughter simply because the school has already received a letter that she is not to be punished without my knowledge and acquiescence. If the school insists on touching my kid she is withdrawn from the school one second minimum before they lay a hand on her.
That gets around all the sticky little defenses anyone in the school might raise during the lawsuit. I recommend it to all parents.
Most schools have a police officer there for most of the day. He should know how to respect the student’s rights. If she refuses to give up any substances not allowed by the schools, make it the parents problem and send her home or ask the parents to send a note giving her the OK to have the substance.
This would not happen to my daughter simply because the school has already received a letter that she is not to be punished without my knowledge and acquiescence. If the school insists on touching my kid she is withdrawn from the school one second minimum before they lay a hand on her.Yeah…except this wasn’t a punishment, it was a search, and your “knowledge and acquiescence” would be irrelevant. But that’s ok…it can’t happen to your kid. And if it did, you would just lawyer up while the people who instituted the policy and strip searched your kid got promoted.
GregA
WTF??? You are bizarre! Sure, they messed up. But, calling it rape is stupid. Humiliating? Sure. But, violent rape?
Detain the child under supervision. Call the cops.
I hope the administration gets slammed.
#32
fusion, um, i don’t care how or whom conducted the search, never did, never would. i would visit extreme physical violence on any jerk who tries to strip search my daughter. period.
on a lighter note, strip searching children and treating them like common criminals is vile, and sends the message that our society has zero regard for its youth and that schools are prisons.
there is no excuse anywhere for this. period.
i hope the jerk who authorized this and the jerk who executed this are permanently tarnished and banished from ever having contact with kids ever.
#36, grog,
, i don’t care how or whom conducted the search, never did, never would. i would visit extreme physical violence on any jerk who tries to strip search my daughter. period.
And you are a better person than the Principal how ?
Grog,
I see your anger, but I strongly suggest instead you read the article. You want to do worse to someone what they did in good faith and took measures to make this a legitimate as possible.
Was the Principal wrong to have the girl strip searched? Of course. The girl was not physically harmed though. The search took place in front of a school nurse.
The question is and should be “does a school have the authority to conduct a strip search without a warrant”. Normal people will say no. Abnormal people will go off on some wild tangent threatening bodily harm.
It has been my experience that those who yell the loudest about physical violence, are the least able to do it. Those who can, just do.
#37 and #38
yeah, yeah, yeah. i know i get overheated.
i suppose we should all just be thankful that they haven’t started implementing “enhanced interrogation techniques” at the junior high level.
yet.