Reasonable Suspicion In School

Reasonable suspicion is the act of doing a search because you feel as if there is a problem. And from that, I personally think that warrantless searches of students, whether by police, teachers, or principals, should be allowed by reasonable suspicion. Let's set up an example. If a student starts acting strange or suspicious all of a sudden, there could be something wrong. If you search their bag or locker and find drugs, then you could call the parents and police to solve the problem. The parents could then help the student with why they were doing the drugs and help to stop the habit while restoring their child back to their normal self. If you found any sort of weaponry in the bag, you could then confiscate the weapons, call the police, and stop the problem before it starts. The problem being if the student wanted to shoot up the school. You could get the student sent to therapy for an attitude and
Second, the scope of the search must be reasonably related to the rule violation that led to the search in the first place. Because the vice-principal's search of TLO met the Supreme Court's test, it reversed the judgment of the New Jersey Supreme Court and ruled that the marijuana was admissible as evidence.” Another direct quote from the article. This makes the use of reasonable suspicion as a way of warrantless searches fair and completely necessary for all schools to do. It would be necessary for all schools so that we can avoid drug trades, violence, student based shootings, and depressed friends and families. The only down side of a reasonable suspicion search is that people can legally rule it being against the Fourth Amendment. But if they were to do that then an entire Court case would be brought up. But a search out of reasonable suspicion is just to ensure safety in schools and