According to the story:
In October 2003, acting on a tip, Vice Principal Kerry Wilson found a few 400-milligram ibuprofen pills (each equivalent to two over-the-counter tablets) and one nonprescription naproxen tablet in the pockets of a student named Marissa, who claimed Savana was her source.Savana, an honors student with no history of disciplinary trouble or drug problems, said she didn't know anything about the pills and agreed to a search of her backpack, which turned up nothing incriminating. Wilson nevertheless instructed a female secretary to strip-search Savana under the school nurse's supervision, without even bothering to contact the girl's mother.
Based on the above, yeah, I'd be surprised if she were carrying around other drugs, especially on her person: (1) The search was based on nothing but an accusation, made by a girl who was already "busted" with "illegal" drugs (kind of analogous to a no-knock raid based on nothing but an informant's word). (2) The girl willingly submitted to a search of her backpack---the most likely place for her to be carrying drugs.
Your average pre-pubescent girl thinks spiders are icky . . . do you think there would be a large market for pills smuggled around in another girl's underwear or bra?
If she was called to the office, she may have had time to transfer the drugs from her backpack to her bra. Her willingness to allow them to search her backpack was, therefore, meaningless.
So your objection to this whole incident is that she shouldn't have been searched at all because, at best, all they would have found would have been more Advil. But the Advil was against school policy. Which means you're saying they should have the policy (to please the parents) but not enforce it (to please the students).
I'm speechless.
Some kid at our local high school supplied some names to the administration of those who he claimed were doing drugs..... to deflect the attention off himself. The kids he accused were innocent.
So the girl found with the medicine said that she got it from someone else. Big deal. The girl allowed a search of her backpack, showing she had nothing to hide. Emptying her pockets MIGHT be justified. A strip search? No way.