The Supreme Court Strip Search

The case is whether schools ought to be allowed to ask students to strip to their underwear if the school has ANY reason to believe the student might be concealing illegal and dangerous items, mainly drugs. In my mind, like all American freedoms, the onus should be on the school. If a student has drugs we can assume a few things: 1. that they might at some point need to distribute them 2. that they might consume them, ir 3. that somebody else knows about it. In each case we could expect to see a change in physical or physiological aspects, such as their need to congregate with other students or a change in behavior. Unless we are willing to make all innocent students feel like criminal victims of a police state which in my mind will make them more vulnerable to crime, we must provide them as a whole with respect, love and trust. We must allow those who have information about dangerous activities to come safely forward including where and when they might be trading, selling and taking the drugs, but we must not victimize the innocent simply because we lack the resources to be more thorough in our investigation. Yes I want our schools to be safe but if we behave as though every student has drugs, then I fear students too will believe that is the norm.