Should Student Searches Be Allowed In Schools?

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Imagine if you were in the middle of class and a police officer arrives into your classroom and orders you to strip. How would you feel about this? Should this be allowed?An argument that tends to occur is if student searches have a positive or negative impact in school. Student searches in school have negative impact because is takes away freedom from students, creates fear, and it interferes with learning. Now some may argue that student searches have a positive impact, but student searches have a negative impact because it takes away freedom from students. Students being searched in the middle of school or class is disturbing. For example, “13 year old Savana Redding was accused of having an over-the-counter medication, forcing her strip excessively intrusive therefore illegal (Feldman 2). This takes away freedom because they aren’t allowing her to bring her medication, and having her strip for no reason. Also it says” Canadian high school conducted a strip-search after a english exam to find a cell phone (Feldman 2). This also takes away freedom because they are forcing a student to strip-search for a phone. Some may argue because this …show more content…

Student searches are negative because they create fear. For example, “ A high school in Quebec recently came under fire after 28 students who were taking a math test were strip-searched by teachers (Moroney 2). This can create fear because it can get students scared if they will get strip-searched. If a couple of students are strip-searched during a test other students would begin to get scared that they will get strip-searched which is creating fear for students, which is very negative. Although it helps school police find harmful substances,police invading your privacy scaring students. Student searches have a negative impact because they don't only create fear, but also interferes with

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