Students Undergo Strip Searches Because $10 Went Missing
The Mainland Preparatory Academy in Texas conducted strip searches on seven females and three males ages 11 and 12 because a ten dollar bill went missing. This happened after a girl said the money was gone and the school has yet to find it.
La Marque Police are investigating the incident even though the police chief says the action was legal. One parent pulled her four children out of the school. Several complain that the school fails to notify parents when the searches happen.
The children stripped to their underwear with a male teacher checking the boys and a female teacher checking the girls. The principal says "Nobody objected to it. Most of the kids didn't mind because they wanted to get their name cleared."
Strip search over $10? To call that extream is an understatement. Whats is happening to civil liberties in the USA? In Australia the only people with that power are the police, and only with a indipendant legal guardian there (for minors). Over here those teachers would have recieved what they deserved, a charge of child molestation and exploytation.
I can understand your point a little Fratley, but remember these are 11 and 12 year old kids. Nothing was found as a result of the search which leads me to believe no one actually took any money. The child who made the accusation may have been just looking to humiliate their classmates or looking for a cover up because they lost the money themselves or spent it when they shouldnt have.
Well yeah, there is always the possibility and the faculty should use discretion. I just do not see what is so extreme about it. They weren't strip searched in front of the class, they weren't molested. I guess if ALL they do is strip search then it is kind of pointless. People can hide things, and they probably will if they know that a strip search is going to occur.
Thank god in Australia this would be seen as child abuse and is outlawed or go to jail.No school or any person/s has any right to strip search any child no matter what the reason unless the parent of that child is present at the time of the search and gives consent to the search.
10 dollars is pathetic, would they search for a nickle too?
This shows that Children have no rights what so ever. I dare say that durring the time of slavery a slave had more rights than a child currently. That may be a little extreme but only a little.
Strip searching is pointless if you do it just down to the underwear, cos the kids would know this and the thief would have just shoved it in his bum cleavage, inside his/her underpants. The teachers would surely understand this, so the only true intention of this search was to humiliate the kids.
if they bothered to look for the money in a teacher's desk.... or if they talked to the custodial staff first?
the principal is a jerk for his statement that nobody objected. By law, children are incapable of objecting to or rejecting anything of this sort. They are too young to make decisions along these lines. Lawsuit!
One wonders, with all the publicity of mismanaged schools, abusive teachers, stupid policies, etc... why schools continue to get into these quagmires? Insane.
Civil Rights Violations definately exist here. En loco parenti does not allow strip searches. Us attorney souldinvestigate and if declinesw toprosecute the parents have an absolute right.
The public school system in America is amazing to me. Armed police, metal detectors, students being beaten with a paddle (in almost half of all states), strip searches, drugs, gangs, guns, knives, and multiple choice testing. Incredible.
I wonder how and when all these problems will be solved.
I think there were definatley some undertones here
The teachers involved should be questioned by child protection officers...
If I had a son daughter who had some friends around, and one of the kids lost a $10 bill... would i strip the children to their underwear to look for it? no... because its out and out wrong...
