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Principals want the right to search students
Following massacres at schools overseas, violence has also hit schools here, with teachers stabbed at Avondale College and Te Puke High, but Secondary Principals' Association president Patrick Walsh said some teachers were reluctant to search students because they felt they would be charged with assault.
Principals are now consulting a document which advises them they can search students for illicit items without fear of legal recriminations, anything from asking a pupil to turn out their pockets to a full body check, One News reported.
The Ministry of Education is working on official guidelines that will go out to schools in the next few weeks.
However, Youth Law said the policy could breach the Bill of Rights.
Youth Law solicitor John Hancock said it amounted to random searches, which even the police did not have the power to do.
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Posted in: News on July 5, 2010 @ 7:49 PM
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Uh, no, just no. The Fourth Amendment is quite clear in saying that people have the right to be secure in their persons, papers and effects. There is no age qualifier for this right.
yeah, but according to schools its to "protect" the majority of students... I still hate how all students lose all their rights (basically) once they enter the school.
there has to probable cause to this you can't violate someones rights cause the COULD have drugs