We still HAVE a Fourth Amendment?
For students? Surely you jest.
"In a 6-3 decision issued by Justice White in New Jersey v. T. L. O., 469 U.S. 325 (1985), The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the search and seizure by school officials without a warrant was constitutional as long as the search was deemed reasonable given the circumstances. The Court reaffirmed that there is a balancing between the individual's--even a child's--legitimate expectation of privacy and the school's interest in maintaining order and discipline. Accordingly, school officials do not need a warrant to search the belongings of students, but they do require a "reasonable suspicion"."
"This reasonable suspicion test, meaning the reasonableness of the search under all the circumstances, is a lesser standard than the Probable Cause standard. Such reasonableness is based on two criteria: 1, whether the action was justified at its inception; 2, whether the search as actually conducted was unreasonably related in scope to the circumstances which justified the interference in the first place."