NH Schools Banning backpacks

[aries]

specifically the school I attended last year, that my brother still goes to.

They are writing up and giving detentions to students that carry backpacks into the school building, as well as any other bags.

I am going home this weekend and I will ask my brother more about this new policy and post it here.

This is supposedly to combat students bringing drugs and weapons to school. Something rarely sold in this school anyway. The only person I knew who sold drugs described his method to me - he would take the money and give the buyer a reciept (he gained their trust by providing references) and told them to pick it up from him in person at X location at X time. A bit safer than selling in a school, which has double legal penalties IIRC.

And I think I will write an LTE about this for the KFP and send it to other papers as well.

[Dreepa]

This is funny because I know that some schools (elementary) REQUIRE kids to have a backpack.

[9thmoon]

So much for the right of citizens to be secure in their posessions. 

[Kat Kanning]

Geez!

[Dave Ridley]

If you could name some schools that are perpetrating this, and/or any specific bureaucrats who are behind it that would be helpful.

[aries]

If you could name some schools that are perpetrating this, and/or any specific bureaucrats who are behind it that would be helpful.

White Mountains Regional High School

www.sau36.org

[9thmoon]

Honestly, the second thing I thought of - where are girls supposed to keep their maxi pads?!

Why aren't students and parents protesting this?

Baaaaaaaaa!

[aries]

Honestly, the second thing I thought of - where are girls supposed to keep their maxi pads?!

Why aren't students and parents protesting this?

Baaaaaaaaa!

I thought the same thing... I'm sure huge purses would be outlawed as well. if they became common.

But no, pretty much nobody is protesting. I have a friend that is wearing his backpack anyway, he told a teacher that the 4th amendment protects him from having it seized unless they have a warrant and truely suspect that he has something illegal in it, but they told him that the fourth amendment couldn't protect him because he didnt have that right in school, and that it did not apply because the bags had been banned outright.

That logic would see to be that sewing up mouths is compatible with the 1st amendment... or that bending the barrels of guns is compatible with the 2nd. "We're not limiting your speech, you're just not allowed to have a mouth."

[JonM]

You don't have a right to be in school, but the state compels you to attend?

[aries]

The state creates that "right" I guess.

I want to email the guy who decided this policy and suggest also banning lunchboxes, requiring 1 gallon clear ziplocks, as "I have seen someone distributing weed from a brown lunch bag"

The more asinine the policy gets, the more likely it is to be disobeyed... Or it will be an interesting study in getting raped by authority

[9thmoon]

Go ahead, send an email.

[aries]

Go ahead, send an email.

I'm going to wait and decide if I think it's a bad idea later on

[Dreepa]

he told a teacher that the 4th amendment protects him from having it seized unless they have a warrant and truely suspect that he has something illegal in it, but they told him that the fourth amendment couldn't protect him because he didnt have that right in school, and that it did not apply because the bags had been banned outright.

This is interesting.  Ask him to have the teacher show him where is says that the 4th Amendment is nullified.

[aries]

he told a teacher that the 4th amendment protects him from having it seized unless they have a warrant and truely suspect that he has something illegal in it, but they told him that the fourth amendment couldn't protect him because he didnt have that right in school, and that it did not apply because the bags had been banned outright.

This is interesting.  Ask him to have the teacher show him where is says that the 4th Amendment is nullified.

This is a guy that teaches civics.

I think he is claiming authority that he does not have.

[Dave Ridley]

Superintendent of Schools :
Dr.  Dean S.T. Cascadden
14 King Square
Whitefield, NH 03598
Phone: (603) 837-9363
http://www.sau36.org


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