Controversy: Are School Searchers Right Or Wrong?

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School searches have a lot of controversy involving the students 4th amendment rights. The schools need probable cause to search, they can't just search anyone's stuff for no reason. it doesn't make the school safer if they are spending all their time searching innocent people. I think that school searches make schools safer if they are executed right because they keep stuff you don’t want your kids taking part in away from the schools. School searches are used to keep drugs, weapons and alcohol out of school where they don’t belong. School searches can solve a drug problem in a school but it in effect the relationship between the teachers and students would dwindle. They could also make a nonexistent drug problem go up. in an article Kate Ehlenberger said "a teachers report of a student smoking in the bathroom justified a search of the students purse" (Ehlenberger 1). kids will find anywhere they can to light up even if its in school. Drug searches are a gray area in school districts because they don’t want parents knowing that there could be a potential drug problem at their kids' school. there is a strong debate on whether searches are justified or not. …show more content…

The searches don’t do any good if your searching little Johny just trying to get to math class. You have to be smarter than the drug dealers, which is hard because they are trained to avoid cops at all costs. in an article Bryan Robinson said "a former student admitted to selling "quite a big of marijuana" to current students" (Robinson 1). In another case school is one of the best places to bust people because there is a bunch of "customers" in one building at one time. some people dont think school searches are a good

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