Response to School Strip-Search Case

The circumstances under which the young girl mentioned in this article was strip-searched was nothing short of a complete and utter violation to her bodily privacy and physiological wellbeing.  This is not to say that strip-searching is never a viable measure of action, but in this instance it had merely the most minimum basis and virtually no justification.

In this case, the primary reason for the victim's interrogation was the testimony of another student who claimed that she received ibuprofen from the said victim.  While a questioning in some form may have been appropriate, the crude manner in which a full-out strip-search was performed was both assaulting and baseless. 

The timing of this assignment ironically allowed me to juxtapose the circumstances of this article with the immediate reality of a drug bust at my school that occurred yesterday. The blatant difference is that the students made the marajuana pass (quite cluelessly) right in front of the teacher at which point she wisely did not buzz the office, but discretely sent a stapled note up to the office to alert the administration who required that all teachers hold their classes.  After about 2 hours of holding classes, the police took the boys in custody, questioned them, and then and only then performed a partial strip search and total pat-down which revealed the substance in question. It is under these circumstances and by the professional protocol upheld by my co-workers and administration that I believe a strip-search is entirely more justified.