Constitutional Rights at school?

[Eugenia Gabrielov]

First of all, the chit chat thread is precisely that: you can discuss whatever you desire . We've had a lot of stuff here in the past few months weeks whatever, much of it not pertaining directly to robotics. Thanks for bringing up this issue.

My school also has rules on locker searches. The question is what is more illegal: bringing a gun to school, or getting a locker searched? You'd think it's common sense not to bring a gun, but some people won't realize that. The same may apply to drugs and other paraphanalia (spelling?).

As far as the AIM sniffer goes, you may want to check on your school policy, and the stuff you and your parents probably signed at the beginning of the year. Since I know you go to a school where you also live, it may be legal to monitor AIM. However, the way you describe it seems a bit extreme. If you signed it in the school policy, you're pretty much stuck.

I think the locker issue is acceptable as far as searching goes, but only with a warrant/permission. I feel it should be just like searching someone's house or car: you need a warrant to arrest or catch them on anything. I feel that random locker searches are inappropriate, because well, I just don't feel comfortable knowing that they had no reason to go but just want to get me or someone else for something.

And yes, I read my highschool handbook.