Tuesday, March 07, 2006
In loco parentis
This Latin phrase means to act in place of a parent or as a parent. Parents can search their child’s belongings without a warrant and Public schools do the same everyday.
Apparently the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution does not apply to children. Also, students are considered guilty until proven innocent. Escorted out of your classroom and not being told why. Being told that your backpack is going to be searched. Your locker and coat are also searched. Then the school nurse shows up and sees that an upset and confused student. She is the one who finally tells you why you are in the security office, as she takes your blood pressure. The blood pressure is high, but due to the stress of the situation the results were considered inconclusive. Yes, there was a search… but there was nothing there to be seized.
Granted schools need to be kept safe, but to remove students from a classroom when they are not being disruptive? Not telling them why they are being removed, interrupting their education, needless to say I am more than annoyed. He had not broken any rules.
He now feels that school has created a state of marshal law, where the student’s rights are overlooked. This is an abysmal environment to gain an education; however is it promoting imaginative thinking. “Why did I get hauled out of the middle of class?” “What did I do wrong?” “What’s going on?”
Yes, get the critical thinking into gear. Do research on student rights, find out about In loco parentis and have lengthy discussion with mother about Fourth Amendment. He is dismayed to find that out that he does not have much in the way of rights. He is consoled by the fact that he is almost done with high school.
This Latin phrase means to act in place of a parent or as a parent. Parents can search their child’s belongings without a warrant and Public schools do the same everyday.
Apparently the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution does not apply to children. Also, students are considered guilty until proven innocent. Escorted out of your classroom and not being told why. Being told that your backpack is going to be searched. Your locker and coat are also searched. Then the school nurse shows up and sees that an upset and confused student. She is the one who finally tells you why you are in the security office, as she takes your blood pressure. The blood pressure is high, but due to the stress of the situation the results were considered inconclusive. Yes, there was a search… but there was nothing there to be seized.
Granted schools need to be kept safe, but to remove students from a classroom when they are not being disruptive? Not telling them why they are being removed, interrupting their education, needless to say I am more than annoyed. He had not broken any rules.
He now feels that school has created a state of marshal law, where the student’s rights are overlooked. This is an abysmal environment to gain an education; however is it promoting imaginative thinking. “Why did I get hauled out of the middle of class?” “What did I do wrong?” “What’s going on?”
Yes, get the critical thinking into gear. Do research on student rights, find out about In loco parentis and have lengthy discussion with mother about Fourth Amendment. He is dismayed to find that out that he does not have much in the way of rights. He is consoled by the fact that he is almost done with high school.
