The School Crotch Inspector - Fighting the Advil menace, one strip search at a time

Reason ^ | April 2, 2008 | Jacob Sullum

[driftdiver]

Homeschooling reason ping

[goldstategop]

We must keep aspirin out of the hands of kids or they'll overdose themselves on it. Such is the brainlessness of zero tolerance drug policies.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Mr. Jeeves]

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between drug warriors and child molesters.

Oh, that's going to go over big with FR'S own Drug Warrior contingent. ;)

[microgood]

That principal is extremely lucky that was not my daughter.

[ricks_place]

The public school system would be firing the principal if the searched-for pill induced abortion.

[driftdiver]

So if you want to legally rape kids all you have to do is become a principal and accuse the child of possessing ibuprofen.

amazing

[Clintonfatigued]

Just when we thought we’d heard it all, we discover a reason to homeschool that would never have occured to us.

[Clintonfatigued]

Our taxpayer dollars at work.

[DuncanWaring]

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between drug warriors and child molesters.

Sometimes there is no difference between drug warriors and child molesters.

[AndyJackson]

Homeschooling reason ping

While I understand the sentiment, this repeated suggestion is a horrible cop-out, a call to surrender our civil liberties and attempt to withdraw behind private fortifications. But if your civil liberties are not safe in the public commons what will protect your civil liberties on your own property?

[DuncanWaring]

...the principal, Robert Beeman, said "he did not think the strip search was a big deal because they did not find anything."

Principal Beeman, I'm sure, would have no problem with being strip-searched, since he's got nothing to hide.

[Clintonfatigued]

Crotch searches for Advil. What will they do next, strip searches for M & M’s?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“..the principal, Robert Beeman, said “he did not think the strip search was a big deal because they did not find anything.”

Then YOU, Beeman, should be sued so that your legal expenses amount to every nickel of equity in your home, your car, and your salary for the next 8 years, and if you’re found not guilty, why then, it’ll be no big deal for you either. Sound fair?

[Gorzaloon]

That principal is extremely lucky that was not my daughter.

If a few of these "Education Professionals" began meeting the large end of a baseball bat, it might start doing some good.

Or more than a few.

[driftdiver]

“While I understand the sentiment, this repeated suggestion is a horrible cop-out, a call to surrender our civil liberties and attempt to withdraw behind private fortifications.”

Oh I agree with you but the two aren’t mutually exclusive. I can refuse to sacrifice my children at the alter of liberal gods and still fight against this.

Public schools are an abysmal failure and yet the answer is always more tax money.

[Myrddin]

I have zero tolerance for brainless school teachers and administrators. When common sense is tossed out in favor of a "zero tolerance policy", it is time to toss out the brain dead parties who created the policy.

[tioga]

-those idiots are SICK! even if they found an ibuprofen.......SO? they sexually molested a child for THAT?

[microgood]

If a few of these "Education Professionals" began meeting the large end of a baseball bat, it might start doing some good.

Baseball bat was exactly what I was thinking.

[rockabyebaby]

Let me say this,,,,,if that was my daughter, the principal and I would definetly have had WORDS, actually, my daughter probably would have stood her ground against being searched. I’m sure I would have gotten a phone call.