Supreme Court Calls Strip Search of 13-Year-Old Unconstitutional
The decision could set new boundaries on how school officials keep order, experts say
Reader Comments
Wow
I myself, agree with all of you. The search was indeed against her free will, and that, in order to have stripped her....they needed to call parents in AND law enforcement. Bring her to the office, and have the girl sit there untill all arrives. Then (with permission of the parents) had the Cop (hopefully female) search the girl. Doing what these officials did was beyond unconstitutional. The judge that voted for it being ok, im sorry, but he needs to get his brain fixed, or replaced. Hes out of his mind. I am also 16, so being close to her age, i am more fully understandable of the subject. I am in my US. History Class as of right now, and we are doing an essay on the constitution, about court cases, and picking sides of the argument. (with or against) This is my topic i picked. so ya.
Sincerely, Kenneth W. Cole
Ridiculous indeed...
Dear Ken in MN,
That Clarence Thomas thinks it's OK for schools to strip search 13 year olds speaks volumes for right wing loonie-ness.
Left-right Confustion?
Although I agree with Ken of MN and the Supreme Court on this decision, I think Ken has gotten his lefts and rights mixed up. There is no "left wing loonieness" to be found here. The student was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union. The US left consistently supports the right to privacy for students and for adults. It was the most right-wing judge, Clarence Thomas, who supported the school in its strip search. It is gratifying that the other conservative judges voted for privacy in this case, and it demonstrates that on fundamental liberties, there can sometimes be a respect for our constutional rights that transcends the left-right divide.
Ridiculous
That it takes the US Supreme Court to figure out its wrong to strip search 13 yr olds speaks volumes about how far this country has fallen into left-wing loonie-ness! Common sense would dictate getting the parents to come to the school and take care of their kid. Its NOT the schools job to do anything but teach kids school lessons. Schools (ie: government) have too much power in regards to out children. And if parents are too busy to take care of their own children, they are doing it wrong.
Lee Anderson
Lee Andersons use of the word "Rape" four times in the previous comment, in one paragraph, is suspicious or at least peculiar. In a case where rape has never been alledged by the plantiff and a reader chooses to plant or encite a new dimension to the subject is worth scrutiny. I can think of several motives and or disorders that would drive someone to take that position but I will leave that up to the other readers to ponder.
Stripe those degrees!
"It is pathetic when you read that a court makes decision based on what its effect would be something."
That's The truth! What kind of idiot would consider the consequences of his actions? We're not paying these Supreme Court Justices to think! ;-) BTW, the person who said that wasn't a judge, but a school security "expert".
Strip search
Looks like school administrators and or staff using a common house hold drug like ibuprofen as pretence to strip search or rape a 13 year olds. Prescription strength ibuprofen is only 800 milligrams, or 4 regular strength ibuprofen tables. So if she had a bottle of regular strength pills in her pocket would they also rape her. Some one likes to use excessive force there on minors and rape young girls under the pretence of possessing a legal drug that would not harm her in the first place even at percription strength but harm her more by emotional trauma of feeling like she had been raped. I say file criminal charges against those responsible for there dirty deeds and not let them hide behind what they view as a loop hole in the system for abuse of minors.
srtip search court decision
It is pathetic when you read that a court makes decision based on what its effect would be something. Whatever happenned to the "justice is blind" motto. The justice looks like George Bushia's Iraq invasion reasonings. Ridiculous.
"We don't want to push our school administrators into a corner where they're going to be so fearful of being sued that they're not going to take reasonable steps to protect students". These judges should be thrown into a jail with law degree striped.
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no, Clarence Thomas isn't a pervert - he's just a moron.
strip search court decision
I agree with the courts decision, which used some common sense that the administrators should have used. Although you never want to be accused of treating one student differently from another. From reading the article and the paraphrasing of Justice Souters majority decision all the Justices would allow strip searching 13 yeard olds if the drugs in question were stronger or illegal. So to single out Justice Thomas as a pervert would be mean and idiotic. And if I had illegal drugs and wanted to hide them in a place not easily searchable , I would put them in my under wear just like any intelligent person would.
