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Students Rights In The Public School System
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Students Rights in the Public School System
I chose to do my report on students rights in the public school system. Lisa Rowe, then sixteen a student at Teaneck High School, in New Jersey, thought she was doing a good dead when she returned a purse she'd found in her English class. When she took the purse to the office instead of being rewarded she was told to step into the principals office and asked to pull up her sweater and pull down her slacks, and then she was searched. Why? In case she was hiding stolen money from the purse. That is just one example of how students rights are being violated, and here is another. In the case T.L.O. Vs NEW JERSEY a girl got cought smoking in the bathroom of her school. She was then taken to the office, and asked to open her purse and spill out the contence. What was found in the purse was marijauna a role of money and notes sujesting that she was a marijuna dealer. Her parrents soon filed a suit against the school on the basis that the evidence found was obtained illegally becauce no search warrent was used. In 1985 the case got all the way to the supreme court. The court ruled that the fourth amendment rights didn't apply in the school, and school officialsstill have to have reasonable suspicion not probale cause. Another famous case is the case TINKER Vs DES MOINES where two students wanted to protest the war by wearing arm bands. When the school officials saw what the two students were wearing the teachers demanded that the ...
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