Bull Run Middle School Research Paper

In conclusion, even though there are many different pros and cons about searching school lockers humans today need to search them if need when needed.Although school locker searches can be bad in some legal

"On a scale basis, most people actually hate locker searches and think that schools need to terminate them." Joseph, a friend of a student whose locker got searched said. His friend, Ryan had school locker searches in his school. They were allowed to have their phones out during lunch, but when the security pulled him away from his friends at lunch to have a locker search, they confiscated Ryan's iPod 4. He never saw it again. The security said that they kept it, but it "somehow" got lost. Students should not conduct random locker searches because they will lose their privacy, have misplaced focus, and the search could lead to legal issues. I mean, how many times have people found bad in lockers in the past 12 years?

Now addressing the complete disrespect and breach of privacy when it comes to school lockers. Lockers aren’t ever really safe, it’s true. If wanted/required a security guard can easily unlock your locker at any point in time during a school day. And you might be thinking: “Okay? So what, they’re just kids” well newsflash, kids have rights too. K-12, the upper echelons of the education system sometimes out right accuse these poor students of harboring drugs and other unlawful paraphernalia within their lockers, and takes upon themselves to undergo what they call “a locker search”, or in other words. “Breach of privacy example number 3”.

Where as others may believe that this will make the school system more of a bureaucracy. Further more those would also argue that most of the time lockers are hardly involved in the keeping of contrabands. If students have contraband items they are more likely to keep it on them and therefore randomly searching lockers it not as important. The time and energy which would be spent searching lockers could be used in more efficient way.

School should be a place that parents can drop their kids off and know that they will be safe. When an awful incident like this occurs, children are put at risk. Since the crime, schools have been taking more measures of keeping their school safe. Along with Rockville High School, according to Grossman, “safety policies at the school have changed to make roaming the halls between periods more safe”. Many schools are now having students sign in and out of class when leaving the classroom and along with having one designated hall pass for each classroom allowing only one student to leave the class at a time. The county is trying to do whatever will save their reputation. In reality, having students sign in and out will not keep track of exactly where the students are at every moment in time when they are in the school building. It is a good idea to try to know where the students are, but this is only happening because of the recent issue and there are other possibilities that other incidents could happen, no matter what the school does to prevent it; things happen. Students can easily still be roaming the halls or do other things they are supposed to do. It is a good intention to keep more careful watch on students, but who knows how much longer these rules will actually be enforced. Instead, they should be more careful of who is in the school

Why are so many students against locker searches? Locker checks are not done to invade a student's privacy but they are meant to ensure the safety of students by eliminating weapons entering the school grounds and prevent illegal activity such as the consumption of drugs, and trafficking. Locker checks are essential because malevolent students bring drugs and weapons to school and store them in their locker. When schools have locker checks they are prohibiting the possible, trafficking and drug usage, cheating on tests and quizzes, as well as possible school massacres such as the St Pius shooting in Ottawa on October 27 1975, or the Columbine High School shooting on April 20th 1999. With having school locker/personal searches situations, and illegal activity like this can be prevented making school a harmful place.

In an effort to be better prepared for a threat on campus, Roseville High School maintenance began installing Lock Bloks in the portables a week and half ago. These $10 devices allow doors

Imagine waking up to your blaring alarm clock and getting up to brush your teeth and eat breakfast. As you get dressed you realize something- it’s Monday morning and you simply cannot go to school because you are too afraid. 120,000 kids across the country feel this way every morning. They are afraid to go to school because they may possibly lose their life to an irresponsible child or teen with a gun. Locker searches can help these thousands of children and teens to feel safe. Clearly, the safety and well being of students in America should be the number one priority when considering policies for locker searches.

Many Students at Bayshore say they need their backpacks throughout the day because their bus comes early, the students can’t get to their locker in time to be on time for class, or to simply make it get to class to class. Ally K, a student a Bayshore Middle School, says “ More than half of my classes are on the first floor, but my locker is on the second floor. This was the reason I brought my backpack to all my classes.” This shows that there is scheduling problem with some students because of the fact their classes and lockers are on different floors. The student handbook begs to differ. In the student handbook, it states “Backpacks and book bags are not to be carried around the school. These items are used to transport

When schools search lockers and students without probable cause they become vulnerable to many legal issues.

Have you ever had to go all the way to your locker just to get one thing for one class? If we could just take our backpacks or something to carry things with, we wouldn’t have that problem. At Romig Middle School, we aren’t allowed to bring such things. Instead of carrying our backpacks we have to keep them in our lockers at all times. If we do take backpacks with us to class, we get in trouble by our teachers or security guards. Going back and forth through the hallways wastes needed energy that we already don’t have because of the long and early school hours. Not only does it waste energy, but it’s also time consuming and causes us to become late for class. Students should have the option of carrying some of our things through the hallways

Although others may disagree, random locker searches would be a very reasonable idea. No one knows what other kids may be hiding in their lockers. This concern could be very dangerous in some cases.

There are many bad reasons why we shouldn’t change lockers every year. First, it could be harder to find classes and lockers. If we change lockers every year we might not know where the locker is or where the classes are. Second, you have to keep learning different combinations. For example, my friend remembered her combination from last year and kept putting it in her locker this year. Finally, you would need to know how much time it takes to go to your locker than to class. You would have to hurry to your locker, that might be far away and grab your stuff. In conclusion, there are many reasons and examples why changing lockers every year is a bad

Courts have singled out school lockers as generating a lower expectation of privacy, frequently distinguishing locker searches on the basis that a locker is school property, and students do not retain exclusive possession. This is particularly likely when they have signed a form acknowledging that the locker is school property and subject to inspection. Under the view of joint control, school officials have been allowed to inspect lockers or even to consent to locker searches by law enforcement officers. For example, a California appellate court held a warrantless search of a student’s locker was justified. After a SRO received a tip about a student possibly possessing a weapon, a police officer

The primary advantage of locker searches is their effectiveness. Finding contraband material such as stolen property, drugs or weapons in a student's locker is an easy way to establish guilt and