If you're saying the school should change their policy, allowing students to exchange (legal) drugs with each other in the hallways and classrooms, speak up. Do you support that?
I feel there is never a need to strip search anyone for any reason other than one law enforcement would sanction. I also don’t think anyone other than law enforcement should conduct strip searches. How far do you think this should go? Would you sanction a strip search for candy, or a note passed in class? Those are also a violation of school rules in many schools. I see a strip search as a very serious issue; not to be taken lightly. Law enforcement doesn’t even take strip searches lightly. They are only conducted by law enforcement under strict guidelines and by people trained to conduct them.
I don’t think legal drugs should be controlled by school officials. If there is an issue with legal drugs, then that should be addressed by the parents and/or law enforcement. Schools functioned for many years without regulating legal drugs and I don’t recall any issues that the schools were not able to handle through their normal process.
The role of schools is to educate; they need to stay in that role and not take on the role as “acting” law enforcement personnel.
Schools have a remedy, if a student is not following the rules, and it is a serious enough issue- they may suspend or expel them. They need to use that process, with parental involvement and not act as though they are some type of pseudo law enforcement.
I am amazed that anyone thinks strip searches by school personnel are fine and dandy, and should be done in the normal course of enforcing school rules. I wonder if the same people would feel that it was fine if their employer used strip searches as a way to make sure their work place rules were followed.
A strip searh is an extreme violation of privacy, and should never be used except in extreme circumstances.