Thirteen Year Old Girl Strip Searched for Ibuprofen

Does this story aggravate you as much as it does me? The vice principle, (I did not capitalize that title because he does not deserve the title), of a middle school in Arizona, after another student was cornered and in her own defense shifted the blame to Savanah Redding, ordered the 13 year old girl to be strip searched when a search of her back pack did not reveal Prescription strength Ibuprofen.

The biggest shame award goes to the Vice Principle. Shame on you for being in a position of authority and not handling it with enough wisdom to find a solution short of violating a 13 year old honor students constitutional rights. Apparently this VP attended todays public school system because he obviously does not understand the United States Constitution and the rights to privacy. We aren't talking about a gun or a knife, we aren't talking about heroin, we are talking about a double strength over the counter medication akin to aspirin. Ibuprofen posed a threat to no one in or out of the school, anymore than over the counter Tylenol does. Not only should the parents be awarded enough to insure you are paying for years to come so you will learn what America is about, you should also be reduced to a position where your authority over children will be eliminated.

The next shame award goes to 5 of the 11 judges who found in favor of the school. The first two, Judge Ronald M. Gould, joined by Judge Barry G. Silverman found in favor of the school because the law was not clear? Hello, you are judges for Pete's sake. Does a law specifically have to say, I cannot strike you with my left hand in a fight in order for it to be a violation of your rights? You win the lack of common sense award and should not be in your positions because you do not even understand what, "an individuals rights", means.

The third shame award goes to the other three judges, Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, joined by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and Judge Carlos T. Bea, who ruled in favor of the school because they thought the strip search was constitutional. You three get to line up behind the vice principle and win the ignorance award. I thought being a judge meant you have to learn the U.S. Constitution and have some understanding of it's meaning. I believe you three judges should be strip searched because I think your partaking in some illegal substance that has altered your perception of individual rights under the Constitution. Secondly you should have to go back college for four more years majoring in the U.S. Constitution along with a thesis on the Federalist Papers.

I cannot believe that adults actually think that emotionally scarring a girl, possibly for life, is OK, and even constitutional. If this was their daughter who was a Thirteen Year old Girl Strip Searched for Ibuprofen, would they feel the same way? I don't think so. Adults should be asking themselves this questions before making rash decisions that effect the life of one of our youth in whom they should be able to place their trust. I am appalled that a vice principle of a school would act without thinking and even more appalled that 5 of 11 judges in an appeals court actually think this behavior is OK. We won't even talk about the original court that ruled out the law suit.

The next thing I disagree with is the court of appeals said the only person they can go after is the VP because his administrative assistant and the school nurse, (both women who performed the search), were acting under orders. You know what, being in someone's employ should not mean you dismiss your morals and your own common sense, and had they spoken out perhaps the VP might have had a change of mind. They were both women and they have been 13 year old girls, they should have known what they were doing.

I say to the Reddings, go for it all, get the school system, get the VP, get them all.