Can schools take away a students civil rights?
In October 2003, Safford Middle School assistant principal Kerry Wilson entered Savana Redding’s math class and asked her to accompany him to his office. When they got there, Wilson showed the Arizona 13-year-old a day planner filled with a cigarette, lighters, knives and other contraband. She admitted that the planner belonged to her, but denied the other items. Wilson then showed Savana four prescription-strength ibuprofen tablets and one regular-strength naproxen tablet — all legal, but banned by the school without advance permission. Savana denied knowing anything about the pills, but Wilson had heard otherwise. She agreed to allow Wilson and a school aide to search her belongings. They found nothing. Apparently unsatisfied with his initial findings, Wilson ordered Savana to the nurse’s office for a clothing search. The nurse and aide asked her to remove her jacket, socks and shoes, followed by her stretch pants and
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