Impact of Court Decisions New Jersey v. T.L.O In the case New Jersey v. T.L.O., the student’s purse was searched after the principal had reasonable suspicion that she had cigarettes in her purse since she was caught smoking in the bathroom. The court decision in this case concluded that teachers are acting as agents for the state and are therefore allowed to search if they have reasonable suspicion. Students do have the Fourth Amendment right as all people in America have. However, student’s expectation of privacy has to be balanced with the needs of the school to maintain the educational environment. Schools do not have to obtain a warrant to search, but must have reasonable suspicion in order to search a student’s person or property.
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
The Court ruled that it did not violate students' federal or state constitutional rights to be free from unreasonable searches. The Court reasoned that the state, as schoolmaster of children, must exercise a degree of supervision and control greater than it could exercise over adults. They also said that public school children have lesser privacy expectations with regard to medical examinations and procedures than the general population, and student athletes have even less legitimate privacy expectation. The school district had immediate and legitimate concern in preventing student athletes from using drugs.
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
According to the National Education Association, at least 100,000 students bring guns to school, 160,000 students skip classes because they fear physical harm, 40 students are killed or hurt by firearms, nearly 6,250 teachers are threatened with bodily injury, and 260 teachers are physically assaulted. These facts are not based on once year, but as every single school day. Could one even imagine what the numbers might look like on scale for a month of school, let alone a whole year? So would starting with searching lockers really be a step to far to try and lower the numbers? Some may think yes due to the school invading the students’ privacy. The majority of people though will say no, doing searches of student’s lockers is not a bad
First and foremost, there is a substantial amount of reasons to back this up. Students could be hiding not only dangerous, life threatening objects, but there could also be inappropriate items. With these locker searches being random, it could prevent students from taking any things they might have in there and doing something else with them. Therefore, it would make sure that everything that was in the locker to remain where it is, because the adolescent would not know about the searches taking place. Commonly, students would want to hide any objects they know that they would get in trouble for having at school.
The topic of school officials is a very hot topic right now. Personally I feel like they should have the right to search a student’s bag but only if they have a liable reason. In some cases I feel like teachers or school officials take advantage of the fact the Supreme Court is allowing them to do so. Some kids could possibly have something personal in their bag that they don’t want anybody to see for whatever reason and they might get upset. Yet, I think if they have a good reason or they have been tipped of that student carrying a weapon or drugs I think they should be allowed to do so. By our schools being able to do this it is keeping our community and our schools a much safer place. As the prompt says I don’t think they should be able
Pro: We affirm. Resolved: In United States public K-12 schools, the probable cause standard ought to apply to searches of students. If we prove that it is unsafe for students to learn in an environment where they can be subject to search at any time, we win. Contention 1: Reducing negative
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
The school officials must have broad powers to control student conduct which includes the power of search and seizure. T.L.O’s behavior furnished a reasonable basis for the search of her purse therefore the “exclusionary rule” does not apply. Because school officials are employees of the state, they are obligated to respect every student's right including his/her right to privacy.
A new college student of Cromwell College, Lucy is focused well on doing well her academic. However, as the semester progressed, she became more obsessed with doing well on future exams. Additionally, being raised by strict parent often adds unnecessary pressure to an already stressful college environment. It was clear by her parents that she had to stay in all-female residence, if she did not meet their standards, she would be forced to return home. From the added pressure from her parents would lead to her cheating on a future exam. However, even with the added pressure from her parents, Lucy is still guilty of violating University of Houston-Downtown Honesty Policy, for she had access to unauthorized and violated procedure by not protecting
Some people may say that locker searches are invasive of the students privacy and violate your rights. Also people may say it's the students private property and you need a warrant to search it. Another argument may be that Americans are protected
I feel that drugs are a big problems in schools in this day of age. What makes it worse is that more and more teens and young people are starting to sell and do drugs. I feel like if the schools would not just drug test on Mondays but the
Schools have recently started having locker searches on lockers used by students suspected of drug use or sale of drugs. On one hand students and some parents are agitated and outraged about the invasion of property, while another group supports this invasion and this group is usually composed of the school staff. The student’s side believes that it’s unjust to search their property and the state and staff of the school believes otherwise. The position I take on this controversial issue is that the school sold a locker to a student so therefore it is the student’s property for the 9 months that the student attends school. In other words the land lord can’t bust in to an apartment he rented out to a family just because.
Schools that search people when they look suspicious to see if they have any drugs or weapons on them is a good idea. I feel like it’s a great idea to search for drugs and weapons in school because I would know that there will be no drugs and weapons around the school if they search people for them. If all the schools do searches for drugs and weapons, I think the school would be safer for the people who want their education. I think this because there would be less drugs and weapons if people get searched. Another reason why I think it is a good idea to do searches for drugs and weapons in school is to show that the schools have a good policy for no drugs and weapons to hurt people. If the students don’t have drugs and weapons, they can’t