ELBroEL said:
Josh Serafin said:
Not true, at least in my school. The staff has the right to search you and you're possessions for the safety of the school. I don't see why they'd need to go through pictures, but regular texts could lead to a bomb plot or a shooting plan or something, which I guess is a big excuse.
^ Agree because right when you go to school your 4th ammendment is taken away. which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Assuming youre being sarcastic:
Danny Warwick said:
Josh Serafin said:
Not true, at least in my school. The staff has the right to search you and you're possessions for the safety of the school. I don't see why they'd need to go through pictures, but regular texts could lead to a bomb plot or a shooting plan or something, which I guess is a big excuse.
They can't go through your phone though, at least the regular staff can't. Whenever they search people at my school a cop always has to do it, I don't think teachers are allowed to perform searches.
I know there was something that happened in either my school or a differant school in PA there was something that happened regarding the search of a purse. They caught a girl smoking a cig in the bathroom, and the school director dumped her purse on the desk and there was marijauna. She was expelled and her parents said it wasn't a legal search, and it was taken to court. I don't know how high up it went, but it should have gone to Supreme Court because that is about the ammendments? But anyway, the search was legal because of safety threats or something extremely stupid, almost as stupid as someone can sue you if they hurt themselves on your property. It turned out it was legal search, girl was expelled, my point is that I know some searches are legal. Now I know a phone isn't a purse, but I'm showing that you can definately be searched. I think that if the school had a no phone policy and it went off in class the school can confiscate it, but there doesn't seem to be any logical excuse to search it. I beleive that them searching should be stopped, and the charges of "sexting" should be differant from those of child pornography. No spellcheck on this computer, damnn. But depending on how far this issue went in court, I guess it could just be a PA thing.