A follow up on judicial insanity
2009 January 16
Last year I posted a story about the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that it was A-OK for school officials to strip search a 13 year old female honors student over allegations that she had ibuprofen. Read the details for yourself. It is CRAZY that the school would do that to a student without so much as telling the parents (not that it would be that much better if they had told the parents). It is INSANE that the court ruled it was acceptable.
Today the Supreme Court agreed to review the case. Hopefully they will come to a more sensible conclusion.
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The whole “zero tolerance” thing is asinine and is one reason we didn’t send our daughter to public school until the 7th grade. Let me get this straight…. I’m supposed to trust school personnel with my child’s education, but “the system” doesn’t trust the school officials to distinguish between an aspirin and crack cocaine? Or between a butter knife and a switchblade? I can’t remember the full details, but there was a story in the past couple of years about a high school student was suspended and almost arrested for bringing a weapon onto school property. It was a hand axe that his mom left in the trunk. They were moving and she was moving stuff from the old house to the new garden shed. The kid didn’t even know it was in the car, but another student saw it when he got his band instrument out and reported him. I’m sure the Furher would have been pleased. Here’s a good op/ed from the Baltimore Sun on this topic.
This girl had more body coverage at the end of the strip search than she does when swimming at the PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL. So get off of it you morons.
William, I don’t know what kind of public swimming pool you go to, but I’ve never seen anything like this at the ones I’ve frequented:
Setting aside that piece of information, let’s pretend she was simply forced to strip down to her underwear. Your logic falls short. At a public pool you go at your own free will wearing whatever you deem appropriate. The girl in this case was FORCED to disrobe. Big, big difference.
Here’s a similar example showing you the flaw in your logic. Let’s say this happened at a workplace. If a male supervisor commands a female employee to come into his office and strip to her underwear is that appropriate? NO! It doesn’t matter if he’s seen her at the county club pool in a thong. It is inappropriate because of the compulsory nature of the offense.
I can only presume, though, that you don’t have children. Otherwise I doubt you would brush this off so gruffly.
One weeks detention for the girl for violating the school rules. Terminate the Vice principal for incredibly poor judgement. Leave the courts out of it.
The girl didn’t violate school rules – she didn’t even have any of the dangerous ibuprofen.