Stakeholders

There are two sides to every story. The same is true for student searches. Some people think student searches are good, and are welcomed in the community, while others think that they are unacceptable.

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Student Searches = Good: Most people that think student searches are a positive thing would be people such as parents, principals, police men, most students etc. Pretty much everyone who believes in the common good like student searches, because they protect the students in the school, as long as those searches are reasonable in the circumstances. Also, it will eliminate the amount of contraband brought into the school if the students know that the teachers will search you if necessary. Students aren't normally willing to take that risk. There is also the controversy of whether administrators should be allowed to search student lockers. The pro's for this side would be that if they didn't allow that, the students would feel that they had a safe place to hide illegal substances, or weapons, so searches of student's pockets and backpacks wouldn't be very useful. They would just hide everything in their locker. Plus, lockers are school property, so they should be allowed to search them whenever. However, these people only think that searches are good, when they are reasonable for that specific case. Overall, according to some people, teachers/administrators should be allowed to search students because if not, contraband will become more frequent, and schools could become dangerous.

Student Searches = Bad: Even though most people do think reasonable student searches are good, there are still some people who think they are bad, such as certain types of lawyers, students and others. It's a lawyers job to protect the rights of a student, and it's hard when administrators are always searching them. Some students do like the safeness that student searches provides for them, but other students don't like it when teachers/administrators search them, especially when they didn't do anything wrong. For example, the Savana Redding Case. Savana and her mom did not like that search, because nobody did anything wrong, and she was still being searched. Other people think that student searches are bad, because it breaks the trust that the teachers and the students should have between them. Why would a student go to a teacher for help about something illegal, when they know that the teacher might search them?

All in all, student searches are good most of the time, as long as they are reasonable, and not minimally intrusive or overly intrusive for a specific case. However, sometimes they can be considered bad, when talking about a students relationship with the school.

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