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Should Locker Searches Be Allowed
Although many schools have atrocious students and think there is a need for random searches throughout lockers, in some claims this is true, but, random locker searches are not always needed. Many people can agree that random searches throughout lockers are unacceptable.
First and foremost, random locker searches are most indefinitely a invasion of privacy. Privacy is a right we are all given. People today, especially, have meager amounts of privacy. In most schools you have to pay for a locker, if you pay for the locker you should have the right to a private locker.
In addition, school locker searches are a consumption of time. If you have over three hundred pupils in one school it could take a week to get through all of them. If people

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