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So the dean searched everyone's backpacks today..

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JDrake

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Someone told the teacher that they were missing their TI-89. The teacher assumed that someone stole it, so she called down the dean who took everyone's backpacks and searched them. The calculator wasn't found 😕
Good thing I had stopped at my locker earlier* that day, so nothing was even in my bag....
Anyways, is this legal? What if they had found something else, other than the calculator, could you have gotten in trouble??

Edit: High School.
Edit2: They only searched the bags of my Bio class..
Edit3: *
Edit4: Public school.
 
Must be a small school if this was even a feasible thing to do. Its also a waste of time since the person who stole it almost certainly would have caught wind of it and ditched it before they searched them.
 
I would have refused just for the sake of making a point...

You want to search my bag? Bring in an officer with a warrant and you are welcome too.
 
Originally posted by: joedrake
Someone told the teacher that they were missing their TI-89. The teacher assumed that someone stole it, so she called down the dean who took everyone's backpacks and searched them. The calculator wasn't found 😕
Good thing I had stopped at my locker that day, so nothing was even in my bag....
Anyways, is this legal? What if they had found something else, other than the calculator, could you have gotten in trouble??

Edit: High School.
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Drugs are bad, mkay. 😛
 
Originally posted by: AdamSnow
I would have refused just for the sake of making a point...

You want to search my bag? Bring in an officer with a warrant and you are welcome too.
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Depends on if the school is public or private no? 😕

 
IANAL, but my understanding was that they can search lockers whenever they want, but not personal property like backpacks, or you yourself without probable cause.
 
In High School a teacher could search any backpack at any time. All they needed was a witness (ie. another teacher) and a cause (the "stolen calculator").
If they found drugs you better believe that you would have gotten in trouble for possesing them.
 
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: AdamSnow
I would have refused just for the sake of making a point...

You want to search my bag? Bring in an officer with a warrant and you are welcome too.
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Depends on if the school is public or private no? 😕
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Personal property is personal property...

*shrug* I'd refuse.

What if I had some :beer: in there for you Zim? They would take it......... 🙂
 
I believe searching your bags is borderline illegal even for a highschool. Lockers are one thing (school property), your back pack on the other hand is personal property.
 
Maybe someone shouldn't misplace a 100 dollar calculator. I've lost the teachers TI92, now that sucked (school only has one, yes I am HS)
 
Originally posted by: AdamSnow
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: AdamSnow
I would have refused just for the sake of making a point...

You want to search my bag? Bring in an officer with a warrant and you are welcome too.
Click to expand...

Depends on if the school is public or private no? 😕
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Personal property is personal property...

*shrug* I'd refuse.
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If it is a private school you don't have the right to refuse.

 
Originally posted by: FleshLight
It's HS obviously. Who calls their profs or instructors teachers?
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You have TA's in college...

As far as the search, don't be stupid and bring knives/guns/lighters/cigs to school to show off, i've seen kids busted for this before, I was a hair-smarter and hid the lighter in my shoe [pre shoe-bomber of course]
 
Originally posted by: joedrake
Good thing I had stopped at my locker earlier* that day, so nothing was even in my bag...
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At my HS on person was a much better place to have drugs than in the lockers. Every so often, they'd anounce that no one could enter the halls and you'd see cops walking down the halls with german shephards shiffing the lockers.

Then again, bringing drugs to HS was a horrible idea in the first place.
 
I would think that they can't without some kind of warrant because the theft of a calculator is not endangering the welfare of students.

If I remember what I learned in US last year, the order of importance of rights/priorities of the school are: Saftery, Education, then your constitutional rights.
 
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