As you rush to your locker before class, you notice that school administrators are going through your locker. You think oh my gosh why are they doing this, they have no right to go through your locker.
You may think schools have no right to search your personal belongs or your locker but schools however feel differently. Schools feel that because they own the lockers they can do whatever they want with them. Some people are for the random searches while others oppose the idea of random searches. People who oppose the idea say it goes against the 14 amendment which states we cannot be subject to searches without the proper warrant. They also say that lockers are a students own personal space where they should be able to keep their belongings and not have someone search it. Schools argue that searches are for everyones safety. It helps insure that there are no drug or gun threats that could affect teens. In my opinion we should not be subject to random locker searches unless there is suspect of drug use or gun type threats. This could be an effective way to solve the problem of should we have random locker searches or not. It protects most students rights to the 14 amendment and gives students the feeling that they can keep their personal belongings in lockers without having to be searched regularly. It would also allow schools to do searches as necessary. So as you can see, random school searches is an on going issue that will never satisfy both parties in the issue.
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