Privacy's Affect On Locker Checks

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

In this day and age where school administrators consider backpacks, lockers, and baggy pants to be potential dangers to students and faculty, what will be next? Perhaps pencils, pens, scissors, and glue will be added to the list of items to ban from schools. These, along with other

I did a survey and 50% of my class said that teachers shouldn’t search kids lockers and the other 50% said that they should be able to search them. I asked them why? Most of my classmates said that they should because they might have drugs or weapons, and i agree with that, but what if they had had a valid reason for the drugs or weapon. Example: A kid is walking and a guy walks up to him and tells him to bring him weed or he will hurt him. Then the next day he brings weapon because he's scared and the teachers search his locker and he gets in

"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

School officials in my opinion should not be able to search students anytime they want for weapons and drugs. Yea I know that having drugs and weapons are bad and they shouldn’t have them at school. But the student needs a little respect and a little rights. Like what if

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”.

It cannot be disputed that schools often have to place the privacy of one student, below the overall need to secure the safety of a student body as a whole. If students know that their belongings can be searched, it will discourage them from committing illegal activities at school.

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.

Personally I think it is a violation of the law in some cases. Schools do have the permission to search the lockers though because of the fact that it is their property they’ve funded it but there has been some situations with faculty searching your pockets and backpacks or even making you take off your clothing. Now the pocket and backpack check is something that they can do when you enter the building but not at random times. They have to have probable cause which means they need a reason to search you meaning the person who is conducting the search or a witness visibly see you with something you’re not supposed to have, or smell a use of drugs or alcohol.

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

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.

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.

Thriving Rights of Privacy What if teachers could search student belongings without any reason necessary? In schools all over the country, students get wrongly accused of breaking rules or committing crimes. They must have their belongings or lockers searched to make sure that they are innocent, whether anyone has evidence or not. A 14-year-old freshman at Piscataway high school was caught smoking in the bathroom. The principle searched her purse, which the student said violated her Fourth Amendment protection. The Fourth Amendment is against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Student privacy rights at school are necessary because it keeps personal information private, prevents other violations, and gives students the privacy they need.

Although students should know not to take others belongings, items are still being stolen.According to Amanda Boyarshinov, she says that students are still taking others things without their permission.Regardless of the age people will always take other stuff that does not belong to them.This is important because people work to pay for there thinks that just get taken from them.In addition to Amanda Boyarshinov, Hugh Richard Williams stats that lockers can help reduce the amount of theft that happened at school.This show that lockers would be beneficial to help student keep their belongings safe.This is important because many people overlook this when choosing to get rid of lockers.This is one ways school lockers benefit students and families

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