To all who seem to take a perverse pleasure in bashing the south/rural...

[ChairOne]

Here's some more ammo for ya:

"LA MARQUE, Texas - Ten students between the ages of 11 and 12 were strip-searched as officials at their charter school tried to find a missing $10 bill."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050108/ap_on_re_us/school_strip_search

LOL - Texas rules!

[chicagojoe]

1. Everyone knows Texas is a police state.

[purduejake]

2. I had to do that in high school in Indiana.

Except it was the principal and his assistants doing the search. I refused to let them touch me or lift up my shirt and was immediately accused of taking the $20 bill. They threatened to suspend me, but I was smart enough to tell them that I was calling my parent's attorney as soon as I got home (even though I really don't have one). Eventually I got away with nothing but a little harassment for not submitting to a search.

[Buck_Fush]

4. too bad it ended there, they should have paid for your college education

with the proceeds of the lawsuit, it was right then that your family needed to aquire said attorney.

[thoughtanarchist]

3. *In best Hank Hill voice*

dammit bobby, if that ever happens to you just give 'em this $10 bill and come tell me whose ass to kick.

[Ruffhowse]

5. Notice it was a charter school. No accountability breeds this kind of

abuse. Say NO to charter schools. They are just a stepping stone for the religious right to get their hands on our taxpayer money to finance their primitive religious schools and institutions.