Constitutional Rights at school?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Joshua May

I'll just add in a couple anecdotes to this conversation.

First of all, I have a breach of my own for an example. Two years ago, a teacher who I will say is now spending some quality time in an institution, called in a bomb threat to the school. The school called a fire drill, and all 4,000 students and teachers stood outside for 2 hours. When we returned to class to get our backpacks, we found that my teacher's door was unlocked (she had locked it when leaving) and many of our bags had been noticably moved and apparently searched through. In this case, the school did, in fact, search through every students' private property. Searching through the rooms, fine, its their property, but the students', its not.

Um, it was a bomb threat, what do you expect them to do?

They had to cover all angles. Someone said a bomb is in the school. You can't just dismiss that. 9 times out of 10 a bomb threat is fake (probably more than that, really), but it doesn't bother me at all if they have to go through people's backpacks to make sure that there is indeed no bomb on the campus.

If a bomb went off because some local police force didn't search backpacks, everyone would be screaming bloody murder and demanding that all bags be searched any time there was a threat.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't