By Hendrickson and Wright
This school has the right to search through your locker and your personal things without you there. This is not right at all. There are also a lot of double standards. I’m not saying that students and “adults” should be equal, BUT the students should have some privacy. Students have no real rights at this school.
The administration has “locker checks” here where they dig through your locker, bags, jacket pockets, and other personal items. When they do this they warn you a week ahead, but they don’t tell you exactly when. You are not even told when they are searching through your locker the day they do. They just do. They take their list and go down all the lockers and open them one at a time, sitting on their “royal behinds,” scooting down the hall on a chair with an interactive radio system in their hands.
The students are not allowed to have tobacco in any form at school, not even snuff. If you are caught with any form of tobacco at all, you get suspended from classes for three days, and prior to his/her reinstatement to classes, the student must participate in a conference at school with a parent and principal. The student must also confer with a Chemical Health Specialist. When the hall monitors smoke, either on campus or within view of campus, nothing is done to them.
So basically the students at this school have very little (if any) rights here—no privacy and double standards are what make up our “Student Rights.”