Thursday, October 7, 2010
Blooga blooga
This is sort of related to cell phones again but it must be said. Recently a student at our school, who i will not name for confidentiality reasons, was suspended for 25 days pending expulsion. This is complete bull. I will tell you the story and you can judge it how you will but i think it is absolutely ridiculous. He was sitting in the cafe with 2 other guys when the hall monitor walked in and asked them all where they were supposed to be. They said nowhere we have spare, and she left. Then she came back and told one of them to go to the pass room and the guy i'm talking about to go to class. He said he hasn't been to that class all year and they won't let him drop it so he's not going. So hall monitor sent him to the office. Now i agree with this because he wasn't in class but the office to took it too far. When he got to the office they said they were going to have to search him. Now why would they need to search him at all for this? He was skipping class... Since he had nothing to hide from them he said go ahead and they searched him. When they found nothing, they told him to hand over his phone. Once again, why do they need to go through his phone? What gives them the right? When they went through his phone they found a text about something illegal. The contents of the text were not taking place at the school. Since they found this text message, he was suspended for 25 days or so and is now facing expulsion. Aside from this story, i have heard from plenty of other people that have been searched or threatened to be searched for reasons that should not have anything to do with being searched. It just doesn't seem right at all to me.
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ya i completely agree with you on this one, that is complete bull. they went to far, they invaded his privacy which i think is actually against the law to do, but i don't know for 100% so if you would like check into that. but ya they had no reason to search his phone and i wonder why they wouldn't let him drop this course he wanted to drop. Well i could/would go on for hours but im not going to because i have other blogs to post on. but good blogging you kept me reading till the end and you made me interested to find out how this story ends.
ReplyDeleteI just sort of stumbled onto your post, and i can't believe it! School's must have reasonable cause before they can search a student, or look at their phones. If they don't have reasonable cause then it's an illegal search. But since it's dealing with school officals and not like police and stuff, it's hard to debate on whether it's completely unlawful. But to me it sounds like total BS.
ReplyDeleteThat is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I really want to know if they even have the right to search you when you go in for something like that. Even so that is complete and utter bull****!!
ReplyDeleteCole Cole Cooooooooole,
ReplyDeletePlease don't use people's names on here, eh? Just don't want you inviting problems as this is a public forum. You are welcome to view your frustrations and views, just keep it "name-free" for staff, not just students, when doing so, please. Unless you are writing about how fabulous I am. Then use my real name.
But seriously, please edit this to remove names. Spacibo. (That's Russkie for "Thanks")
Annnd this is why you delete your text history before you go into the office lol
ReplyDeleteI don't really know what the laws are in Canada, but in the States, there was a situation like this where a kid had his phone taken and searched (you can read about it here if you're interested : http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1168/a10.html )
BASICALLY, it was a huge deal, and the American Civil Liberties Union accused the school of commiting felonies and violating the students rights by taking their cell phones and reading their text messages.
I personally don't care if they read my text messages, but I don't think that they should be able to be punish anyone for things that they're doing in our own spare time that has nothing to do with the school, and doesn't effect it all.