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WORLD AND NATION
U.S. Supreme Court favors
types of student searches
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — For years,
President Reagan and other critics
have complained that the courts
have given too much liberty to stu
dents and taken too much authority
away from teachers.
Now the highest court in the land
may have redressed the balance of
power with its decision allowing
school officials to conduct “reasona
ble” searches of students for drugs
or other contraband.
The Supreme Court, in its 6-3 rul
ing Tuesday, said students do not
foresake all of their Fourth Amend
ment rights against unreasonable
searches when they walk in the
schoolhouse door. But it said teach
ers and other supervisors do not
need to meet the police standard of
“probable cause” or obtain a court
warrant before conducting a search.
The Reagan administration had
filed a brief on the side of the Pisca-
taway, N.J., school officials who had
searched a 14-year-old freshman’s
purse after she was caught smoking.
The search turned up rolling pa
pers and marijuana, and the girl
later was found delinquent after ad
mitting to police she had sold mari
juana cigarettes to classmates. The
New Jersey Supreme Court over
turned the delinquency finding, rul
ing that the search had violated the
student’s rights. But the nation’s
high court now has reinstated the
delinquency verdict.
Reagan has been calling for re
storation of “good old-fashioned dis
cipline” as part of his crusade to ex
hort schools to raise their academic
standards.
He complained last February, “for
too long, courts and others have con
centrated on protecting the rights of
the disruptive few. Well, it’s high
time we paid some attention to the
rights of the well-behaved students
who want to learn.”
A White House staff report on
discipline problems a year ago
stressed the importance of defend
ing the rights of educators in cases
where they were pitted against the
rights of students.
Gary Bauer, deputy undersecre
tary of the Department of Educa
tion, who helped craft that discipline
report, said teachers “can’t be law
yers and policemen at the same time.
We feel the standards that teachers
and principals have been under have
been too severe.”
Gary Sykes, a former National In
stitute of Education researcher now
at Stanford University, wrote in The
Wilson Quarterly last January that
students “have gradually acquired a
broad array of First Amendment
rights in the classroom” since 1943,
when the Supreme Court ruled in
West Virginia vs. Barnette that stu
dents could not be compelled to sa
lute the flag.
In the case. Tinker vs. Des Moines
schools, the late Justice Abe Fortas
wrote that students do not “shed
their constitutional rights to free
dom of speech and expression at the
schoolhouse gate.”
August Steinhilber, a top official
of the National School Boards Asso
ciation, hailed the new ruling.
Some schools, particulany those
fighting daily battles to keep drugs
or weapons out of their precincts,
may now be quicker to search stu
dents who are suspected of wrong
doing.
But the court’s emphasis on “rea
sonableness” may inhibit teachers
from ordering a classroom full of
children strip-searched when money
is missing, as happened in one
school district recently.
The most important point is not
the ground rules the high court set
for searches but the message it sent
to educators, students and parents
alike. That message is that discipline
takes precedence in schools over stu
dents’ rights to privacy.
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nique Sea World uses with its three
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