The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that schools may not strip-search students for drugs based on an unverified tip, overturning two previous rulings.Whoa. Give that a moment to sink in. A strip search, given to a 13-year old kid. How traumatic would that be?
In the school nurse's office, Redding was ordered to strip to her underwear. She was then commanded to pull her bra out and to the side, exposing her breasts, and to pull her underwear out at the crotch, exposing her pelvic area. The strip search failed to uncover any ibuprofen pills.Under what circumstances would you think it's okay for a school to strip search a student?
"Common sense informs us that directing a 13-year-old girl to remove her clothes, partially revealing her breasts and pelvic area, for allegedly possessing ibuprofen, an infraction that poses an imminent danger to no one, and which could have been handled by keeping her in the principal's office until a parent arrived or simply sending her home, was excessively intrusive," Wardlaw wrote, joined by Judges Harry Pregerson, Raymond C. Fisher, Richard A. Paez, Milan D. Smith Jr. and N. Randy Smith.It astounds me that this even had to go to trial, let alone the court of appeals. You'd think the school district would apologize, settle out of court, and fire the principal (possibly even transfer the nurse to a different school).
You know, Sarah and I have been on the fence about raising children for a long time. On the one hand, we think we'd make good parents, and our kids would certainly learn to question authority and think for themselves. On the other hand, weighing against this, has always been the fact that we really like the freedom of being childless: we can sit around in our underwear all day, and make love at a moment's notice.
There's always been minor concerns that this ain't a good world to raise a kid in, but we've had the illusion that we could shelter them from the worst of that. But now, knowing that our schools have been taken over by sick jerks, I'm thinking there may be something to the "world's too screwed up to bring a kid into it" logic.
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In all fairness, at the age of 13 I had wet dreams where I was strip searched by the school nurse.
Dude, my wife's trying to take a nap, and hear I am laughing so damn hard.
I'm glad you found humor in that. Truth be told, I've never had a wet dream. Loads of extremely erotic dreams, many of which have involved those in the health services industry. Just no wet dreams. Those require a minimum build up of seminal fluid which I have never even attempted to achieve.
I once dreamt that I was raped by a LARP. Not the individual players, but just the personified embodiment of the LARP. She even introduced herself as being the Vampire LARP campaign I was running at the time.
In the dream, the LARP was played by "7 of 9" (not merely the actress that plays 7 of 9, she had the eyeframe thing - despite being a LARP, she was also a Borg).
This was especially disturbing (and kinda funny in retrospect) because the "I have no sex drive, but I wear the slinkiest outfit on the whole ship" meme on Voyager and Enterprise always pisses me off.
It feels somehow dishonest and wrong to make a character so asexual and yet try to play up their sex-appeal visually. It's kinda creepily close to child pornography in a way.
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