Students Backpacks In Schools

In order to increase productivity and learning time in school, administrators should allow students to carry backpacks to their classes. As a result of bringing backpacks to class, students will come to class prepared and organized, with no reason to return to their locker. Often times students forget their supplies and must utilize class time to retrieve the forgotten materials. With backpacks, students will already have their materials with them, eliminating the need to waste class time. Another advantage of allowing backpacks in class is that it will give students plenty of time to use the restroom between classes as opposed to during lecture time. High schools are notoriously larger than middle and elementary schools, therefore the five-minutes

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.

"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?

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.

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

Another reason why school should have the right to search students’ belongings because of ownership. Everything inside of a public school belongs to the school. Chairs, desks, whiteboards, etc. Sometimes, students forget that the lockers are also part of school property. About forty-one percent of high school

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”.

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.

Going to a locker is genuinely inconvenient and can leave students being tardy because they either had troubles with their locker or did not have enough time to go to back and forth to their locker and class. In addition, when students are in such a rush they constantly forget supplies, and it leaves them having to go back to their locker and miss class time. There are numerous reasons for why backpacks should be permitted and why they do have a good use. However, many people may think that backpacks are unsafe, a distraction or are misused. But, all students should not be punished for those who misuse backpacks, only those abusing the use of backpacks should be punished.

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

I have heard that people think that locker searches are violating their right to store their belongings away from prying eyes. Locker searches in schools should be implemented therefore increasing the safety of the staff and students in the school by keeping contraband off the school campus. Other measures should also be put in place, as one method cannot prevent everything, but it can help make the school a safer place. These are our future generation that we are putting in danger by not keeping them safe and exposing them to weapons and drugs. Locker searches would reduce the use of drugs in schools, protecting the future of many students that would otherwise be destroyed by drugs.

Although random locker searches invade student's privacy or violate civil rights, it could insure the safety of the student that has the locker and it insures the safety of the other students. Someone could make sure that there is not a gun or knife in the locker. It makes sure that there are no drugs hidden in the locker.

If the reason for doing this is to keep us safe and protected then I don’t have a problem with this. I think she is very caring for wanting to do this. She just wants us to be protected and make this school a drug and weapon free zone. Most kids would disagree with this new rule because it’s out of our knowledge. I would understand why they would disagree because their locker is their personal belongings. I wouldn’t want anybody going

If you ask a student from any school if they should force kids to wear clear backpacks to prevent anyone from bringing guns or any type of harmful weapon, they are probably going to say no. If you ask their parents, they are most likely going to agree with the school or district because they are going to want their children or child to be safe in school. Should students wear clear backpacks at school? In my opinion, I think they should because that way at least if you see a gun in someone's backpack you'll be aware and you can call the police.