This is what f*cks up kids

[AlexTheGreat]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/04/18/20090418scotus-stripsearch18-ON.html


Short version

8th-grader's strip search case reaches Supreme Court


SAFFORD - When Savana Redding, now 19, talks of what happened to her in eighth grade, it is clear that the painful memories linger.

She speaks of being embarrassed and fearful, and of staying away from school for two months. And she recalls the "whispers" and "stares" from others in this small eastern Arizona mining town after she was strip searched in the nurse's office because a vice principal suspected she might be hiding an extra-strength ibuprofen in her underwear.

Savana was an honors student, shy and "nerdy," she says, when the eighth grade began.

She first learned she was in trouble when Kerry Wilson, the vice principal, came into a math class one morning and told her to come with him to the office.

He was in search of white pills.

Wilson knew a boy had gotten sick from pills he obtained at school. And that morning, another eighth grader, Marissa Glines, was found with what turned out to be several ibuprofen 400 pills tucked into a folded school planner. A few days before, Savana had lent Marissa the folder. The vice principal also found a small knife, a cigarette and a lighter in the folder. When asked where she got the pills, Marissa named Savana Redding.

These "could only be obtained with a prescription," Wilson reported.

Commonly used for headaches or to relieve pain from menstrual cramps, ibuprofen is marketed under brand names including Advil and Motrin with recommend doses of 200 to 400 mg.

"District policy J-3050 strictly prohibits the nonmedical use or possession of any drug on campus," he explained later in a sworn statement.

Savana said she knew nothing of the pills in the folder.

"He asked if he could search my backpack. I said, Sure,' " she recalled. When nothing was found, Wilson sent Savana to the nurse's office where the nurse and an office assistant were told to "search her clothes" for the missing pills.

Savana said she kept her head down, embarrassed and afraid she would cry. After removing her pink T-shirt and black stretch pants, she was told to pull her underwear to the side and to shake to see if any pills could be dislodged.

It was "the most humiliating experience (of her life)," she said.

"We did not find any pills during our search of Savana," Wilson reported.

 

[piranha45]

one time i lost my swim trunks while getting out of the pool in 8th grade gym class. I got called White Cheeks by the other gym guys for the rest of the school year. I lived.

This girl is just playing the victim card as far as she can take it, and its ridiculous that such a stupid case has made it this far up the court system. Your tax dollars at work, folks.

To sympathize with her is in line with AFC thinking. You need to recognize that.

 

[user43770]

Fvcking kids and their Ibuprofen. All you would have found on me in 8th grade is marijuana and Copenhagen.

 

[pLaYtHiNg]

Absolutely ridiculous! Don't we have better things to do then strip search some poor girl over OTC drugs? Good lord, what is this world coming to?

piranha45, this was not a physical examination from a doctor... this was an illegal strip search, and if it happened to you, I'm sure you'd feel just as violated. Such a crude reply!

 

[Alle_Gory]

This girl is just playing the victim card as far as she can take it, and its ridiculous that such a stupid case has made it this far up the court system. Your tax dollars at work, folks.

To sympathize with her is in line with AFC thinking. You need to recognize that.

I'm sure you would have liked to bend over for a complete examination then.


For those people who believe in constitutional rights, this is ridiculous and these people need to go to jail. This isn't a small issue. You break the law, you go to jail.

 

[piranha45]

uh, yeah, actually ive had to bend over and pull my pants down for quite a few medical professionals. I'd be amazed if any of you haven't.

In any case, I'm sorry you guys are so sensitive, I really am. To set an example for the rest of you and that courageous little girl, the next time a nurse has me face the wall and shakes my undies, I will remain firm and resolute.

 

[Desert Fox]

If she were my daughter I would beat the **** out of the vice principal then cut his balls off until they were hanging by a strand. AFter that I'd pour salt on his open gonad wound...sick fvcker what is he thinking???? Pills lodged up her ass??? ****ing PERVERTS!!!!

 

[j0n024]

hahahahah, some people take it a little to personal...

desert it's NOT your kid so why should you care?

I agree that it's pretty ****ed up but so what so's the whole damn world, hell I've been yelled at by teachers for 5 minutes straight in front of the whole class...did I complain? Ohh and it was face to face.

On a funnier note,

Some kids in class were playing a trick where they would stand someone on a scale and pull down their pants...well I was wearing baggy pants with no belt that day....my boxers got stuck and everyone saw my pee-pee (lol) .....I should have filed sexual assault shouldnt I?

 

[piranha45]

How dreadful! I can't believe you didn't. I bet the harrowing trauma has rendered you completely non-orgasmic during sex, ever since.

 

[j0n024]

haha now that you bring it up ...I DO cry at night for no reason......

 

[ketostix]

the thing is they'll strip search a student for an OTC/nonaddictive pain reliever, file a police report if a boy pinches a girls ass, but if kids are being bullied, beaten and picked on then the school can't do anything about that. The school faculty in public school seem pretty twisted to me.

 

[Desert Fox]

hahahahah, some people take it a little to personal...

desert it's NOT your kid so why should you care?

I agree that it's pretty ****ed up but so what so's the whole damn world, hell I've been yelled at by teachers for 5 minutes straight in front of the whole class...did I complain? Ohh and it was face to face.

On a funnier note,

Some kids in class were playing a trick where they would stand someone on a scale and pull down their pants...well I was wearing baggy pants with no belt that day....my boxers got stuck and everyone saw my pee-pee (lol) .....I should have filed sexual assault shouldnt I?

did you just compare getting cavity searched to being yelled at?

fail.

 

[KontrollerX]

the thing is they'll strip search a student for an OTC/nonaddictive pain reliever, file a police report if a boy pinches a girls ass, but if kids are being bullied, beaten and picked on then the school can't do anything about that. The school faculty in public school seem pretty twisted to me.

Agreed.

Its almost like the people in power want to bring about massacres like Columbine as such things are exactly what happens when adults do not provide any justice or peace for children.

 

[Alle_Gory]

uh, yeah, actually ive had to bend over and pull my pants down for quite a few medical professionals. I'd be amazed if any of you haven't.

There's a difference between wanting to bend over and being forced to.

One is to make sure you don't have colon cancer.
The second one is probably because the vice principal wanted to get his rocks off by watching a prepubescent girl get violated.

You always have a shot at #2. That's what the costumes at the stag shop are for.

 

[Smack]

There's obviously a huge difference between getting one's pants pulled down by fellow vindictive students exposing one's genitals and being forced to pull your pants down and bend over for some 'medical professional'. Shame some of the people in this thread really can't see the difference.

If the vice principal was in the room at the time then that should arouse strong suspicion of paedophilia.

 

[Aenigma]

Agreed.

Its almost like the people in power want to bring about massacres like Columbine as such things are exactly what happens when adults do not provide any justice or peace for children.

Probably training the boys for the injustice that is divorce/marriage in the US.