[utherdoul]

if someone had ever tried to strip search me in school there would have been quite a bit of blood on the floor and not mine.

I hope she wins a fortune.

[gondramB]

I’ve told my young relatives in such a case do anything they can to get to a phone call 911 and say “I’m a child and the bad people are trying to make me take my clothes off please help me.”

*&**in scumbags like this school lawyer will be be the death of public schools.

[marron]

First, I hope she gets bankrupts the schools over this one.

Secondly, this is the mentality of the people teaching your kids. If you care anything about your kids or your grandkids, get them out of the public schools.

[wintertime]

Strip Searchers: One more reason government schools resemble prisons.

Also...Strip Searches are merely away to train children to be good prisoners of the state.

[allmendream]

Drugs....weapons....Ibuprofen????

One of these things is not like the other
One of these things just isn't the same

(yes I know Ibuprofen is a drug, but it is not a RECREATIONAL drug).

[SpaceBar]

I think it’s an excellent way to get youngsters used to a police state and respect absolute authority.

[allmendream]

Point being that they knew the “drug” they were looking for was an “Advil” when they strip searched this child. So talking about taking a hard line to keep weapons and drugs out of school is hyperbole at best.

[ApplegateRanch]

"When it comes to drugs and weapons," Matthew Wright said, "school districts just can't take the chance of not going forward and being sure."

Here is another 'rotten, smart a$$ed punk' annoying your beloved jack booted thugs.

Maybe you better get over here and rant about tell everyone how stupid they are for taking her side and insulting Duly Constituted Authority.

[piytar]

But a lawyer for the school district insisted that there were ample grounds for the search, which turned up NOTHING.

"When it comes to blind baseless fear of drugs not much stronger than aspirin and weapons [red herring, no weapons alleged]," Matthew Wright said, "school districts just can't take the chance of not going forward and being sure esp. if it lets you strip a teen girl naked."

Do this to my daughter, you f###s, and [self-censored] And not cleanly, either! Think I'm over-reacting? There is no such thing as far as I'm concerned if you sexually molest my daughter, which is what I consider this. At the very least, there need to be CRIMINAL charges filed, not just a civil lawsuit!!!

PS Try that in Texas, you pukes. I DARE YOU!!!

[Ramius]

"When it comes to drugs and weapons," Matthew Wright said, "school districts just can't take the chance of not going forward and being sure."

Such staggering, brazen fascism.

[CodeToad]

Considering how perverted school employees are, a child should be given a cell phone and call 911 and report they are being sexually assualted.

[KingKenrod]

Schools shouldn’t do anything of this nature until a parent/guardian is present to make decisions for the child. Legally a child cannot consent to be searched (or anything), so asking for permission to search is not a legitimate defense for the school district.

However, the parents probably signed a blanket release form when they enrolled the child, so they probably gave a form of consent, which is typical.

Also, if a student is suspected of possessing drugs or a weapon, that is a matter for the police, not the school.

[piytar]

We need to use the strength of Free Republic to do something about this other than bluster and carp. My proposal: Suggest to you state legislators that they pass a new law:

Whereas “zero tolerance policies” are out of control;

Whereas those policies are grossly unfair and serve only to create an adverse view of authority on the part of minors;

Whereas strip searching of a minor is uncalled for except in the most extreme circumstances;

Whereas policies that permit strip searching create an incentive for pedophiles to work in schools; and

Whereas some school administrators have shown abysmal lack of judgment, up to and including strip searching minors for suspected possession of legal pharmaceuticals such as aspirin and advil, the following shall be entered in the criminal code:

The strip searching of any minor by any school official, school empoloyee, contractor, security guard, police officer, or any other person for suspected possession by a minor on school grounds of legal pharmaceuticals shall be deemed gross sexual imposition upon a minor (or the relevant legal term in your state) and shall be prosecuted as such.

Upon the occurence of such an act, any principal, school administrator, or school board member who instituted, enforced, or otherwise facilitated any policy that permitted or encouraged the act shall be prosecuted as an accomplice to the crime of gross sexual imposition upon a minor (again, replace with relevant legal term in you state).

These school administrators love their zero tolerance policies. Let’s nail them with one with CRIMINAL teeth. They are apparently too stupid to learn and think on their own, so let’s FORCE them to. Thousands of letter (preferably) or e-mails asking for this law WILL have an impact.