Comments on: Student Strip Search Heads To High Court

Justices To Hear Case Of 13-Year-Old Ariz. Girl Who Underwent Invasive Search For Ibuprofen Pills

[fedup12]

Once again, Robbie . . .the voice of reason!
The same crowd here would be calling for heads on pikes if this girl had taken XTC, and a teacher knew about it, and they said something "stupid" like,
"well, I asked here what it was before she swallowed it, and she said it was aspirin...what harm can aspirin do. I mean, she's thirteen years old, would she lie about that?"
Posted by DaVicar5 at 9:18 AM : Apr 20, 2009

A reasonable argument Vic but none of that happened here. Was all based on the say so of another 13 year old.

I was ornery in school if I could get someone strip searched as a joke I would have done it. Salem witch hunts started with less proof.

[oldsoftee]

Yeah, and Klebold and Harris had never murdered students before April 20th, 1999.
Posted by DaVicar5 - It seems as though maybe you missed your "Advil" dose today.

[presjfk]

When I was 14, we were in phys ed class changing and showering in the presence of other students. It was required. The showers were open rooms with about 20 shower heads, no individual stalls. There were two students who refused to change and subsequently participate. These students were strange and didn't have many friends. Almost like outcasts.
Posted by displeased "

I was one of those kids in the shower with a bunch of naked buys around and it was uncomfortable to be forced to shower with someone else, let alone 20 or more others.

If that makes me strange, so be it.

[tx_doughboy]

It's amazing how often you see "Honor student with no prior history" in the news.
Posted by endurorob at 9:16 AM : Apr 20, 2009

I'm sorry I don't get your point. Are you insulating that this young girl is guilty of some other mischievous behavior?

[endurorob]

Look....you are getting nowhere with this argument. You lose it's as simple as that!
Posted by Stuart2560 at 9:18 AM : Apr 20, 2009

Actually if your idealogy prevails it will be the children that lose.

[endurorob]

if the other girl had said every body in the school has at least one pill or more, it would have required every student to be strip searched. (policy and all ). I doubt they would have done that.
Posted by thgdriver at 9:17 AM : Apr 20, 2009

Nothing absurd about that post.

[thgdriver]

if the other girl had said every body in the school has at least one pill or more, it would have required every student to be strip searched. (policy and all ). I doubt they would have done that.

[displeased]

That was their choice to make. I suppose you would find it ok if the school forced them to shower with the other students.......against their will.
Posted by melchg

No force necessary, they just failed the class.

[strangeworld]

"Nothing, unless maybe she gave one of them to her classmate, your daughter, who said she had a headache and wasn't aware that she was alergic to advil and died."

A certain amount of people, children included, will die from things beyond the scope of common sense control every year. I have a problem with spending money and ruining people's lives over the enactment of laws that are intended to protect every person from every problem. We're wasting huge amounts of tax money on trying to enforce stupid rules. Who cares if kid's smoke?, who cares if people between 18-21 drink (drunk driing is the real problem)?, who cares if a kid has a squirt gun in school?, who cares if a kid is taking a cold pill at school? If you're the type of person who believes that a mentally ill person should be able to buy an assault weapon, yet are worried about a kid in school with a ibuprofen tablet, maybe you're a big part of this country's problem.

[oldsoftee]

rhs648 - You want your children safe in school but protest a strip search of a suspect. - I think my kids would be safer with a hardened Advil dealer than with the flat-lined doofi that decided to strip search this 13 y/o girl.