Strip-Search of Girl Tests Limit of School Policy - case before SCOTA

[groovedaddy]

SAFFORD, Ariz. — Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on — black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt — the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade.

An assistant principal, enforcing the school’s antidrug policies, suspected her of having brought prescription-strength ibuprofen pills to school. One of the pills is as strong as two Advils.

The search by two female school employees was methodical and humiliating, Ms. Redding said. After she had stripped to her underwear, “they asked me to pull out my bra and move it from side to side,” she said. “They made me open my legs and pull out my underwear.”

Ms. Redding, an honors student, had no pills. But she had a furious mother and a lawyer, and now her case has reached the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on April 21.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/us/24savana.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

[sakabatou]

1. This will be interesting for students' rights.

[benld74]

2. IF she DOES NOT WIN this case it will be another loss for human kind

IF she does win this case I hope their settlement shuts the school down financially.

[Demoiselle]

3. What kind of high can you get from Prescription Strength Ibuprofen?

This story made me furious. I can only pray that the idiot school officials who pushed this kind of search are in the minority in the profession.

[groovedaddy]

4. Good question...none that I'm aware of. n.t

[Demoiselle]

5. I don't think so.

But it's a wonderful painkiller. It sure helped when I had a bad back (neck, actually) problem. No high of any kind though, and for a brief time I had to take a lot of it.
Oh, I hope this young woman wins.

[Fovea]

6. A couple random thoughts

Rogue Systems of social control do not need
a rational reason.
At least in times of paranoia.
In fact, they enhance the threat to survive.

Like the General Adaptive Systems they mimic, they do not recognize a difference between
safeguarding and oppression.
Your body makes most of the cholesterol that clogs your arteries to protect you as well.

You cannot bomb drugs.
Also apparently drugs make you paranoid, even if
you are not taking them.
They can turn a bully into a thug.

Can we end the war on drugs now?

[Demoiselle]

7. Excellent (and not so random!) thoughts. (nt)

[Locrian]

8. the ones on drugs

The ones on drugs were the adults who ordered the strip search. Maybe THEY need to be strip searched? Because they must have been high:

A) its freakin ibuprofen
B) hearsay evidence
C) her record - no priors

And yet they decided to risk the schools reputation, legal, etc not to mention the 13 yr old girls privacy / dignity?

What a joke. These are the kind of people that enable evil, because they dont THINK or consider what it is to be human.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. Zero tolerance needs to go.

Everyone -- and I mean E-V-E-R-Y-O-N-E -- who supports it is a goddamned idiot who should never be in a position to influence others' lives again.

Fuck these goddamned children of hell!

[kerrywins]

10. Would this be an issue if the government didn\'t run our schools?

If the government didn\'t run our schools and then force its citizens to go to those schools would this even be an issue?

The girl would have been approached by officials wanting to do a strip search, she could have said no thanks left the school and taken her business elsewhere.