Students right to privacy

The court says that students should not expect any right to privacy while on school grounds.  They claim that the Fourth Amendment "Does not require a finding of individualized suspicion." meaning that drug test can be done on everyone even without reasonable cause to test; and individualizing the test to suspicious student would make the teachers jobs harder because they need to teach and look out for students who seem to be under the influence of controlled substances. The need to get rid of drugs in schools outweighs the students right to privacy "The safety interests furthered by drug testing is UNDOUBTEDLY substantial for ALL children, athletes and nonathletes alike." whether a student is competitive or in choir the need for drug testing in the school was substantial enough to show that this drug testing is constitutional. Both Acton and Earls ruled in favor of drug tests on students.

Both cases state that "due to the minimally intrusive procedures..." they find "the invasion of students' privacy is not significant."  I do not believe that this is the case while the procedure is relatively private because no one is watching while the sample is being produced, the principle of the matter is if the person getting tested never does drugs and all they want to do is sing in choir and others are assuming that the person in question is doing drugs; if it were me I would be offended.  So while I agree with the court that if there is a large drug problem and it needs to be taken care of immediately then go ahead and test me, but as far as the procedure being annoying and just rude to assume that I would do drugs because everyone else in the school might also be doing them is just a waste of my time if all I want to do after school is build and paint things for a theater production. 

Overall I am glade that we have a right to not be strip searched without reasonable cause.  I do however think that dogs in school would be a good idea if everyone in the world were not allergic to them or if they did not cost the school 500$ a dog.