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Quebec Education Minister Yves Bolduc said it’s OK to strip search students suspected of concealing drugs as long as it’s done respectfully and by the book.
“It is permitted to do strip searches, on one condition: it must be very respectful, ” he said at the National Assembly on Tuesday.
“There are reasons for which we can be obliged to conduct searches,” he continued. “What’s important is that we respect the law and respect the framework that was put in place (for searching students) and respect the person.”
Bolduc was defending staff at the Neufchâtel High School in Quebec City, who reportedly strip-searched a 15-year-old student last Thursday on the suspicion that she had offered to sell marijuana to her friend.
News of the strip search broke in the Journal de Québec last week. The student told the newspaper that her locker had been searched regularly at school for drugs. By her account, she had jokingly sent a text message to a friend on Feb. 12 offering to sell him “pot.” A teacher confiscated her cellphone, and the message was passed on to the school principal. After questioning, the student was escorted to a room and asked to take off her clothes behind a blanket.
She was quoted as saying that the search left her feeling “intimidated,” “violated,” “destroyed” and “ashamed.”
In a communiqué, the Commission scolaire de la Capitale said the search was “exceptional,” but that it was carried out according to “established norms.”
originally posted by: WilsonWilson
Nope cant see how this is allowable. The police are they only people who should have any right to conduct a strip search. No civil group or institution should ever ever be able to enforce this. I would be fuming!!!
police state
A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force.
originally posted by: CranialSponge
a reply to: AzureSky
Reason #1227 why home schooling is going to become more popular in the upcoming years.
When schools become more like prison facilities and less like places of academic development, it's time to take the responsibility of educating your children into your own hands.
originally posted by: Ridhya
The news said that she wanted to phone her parents before it happened and they wouldn't let her. Even prisoners get one!
originally posted by: Ridhya
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn
While I agree what happened was wrong, they didnt put their hands on her. Two female teachers had her strip behind a blanket and they inspected the clothing for drugs
originally posted by: Ridhya
a reply to: NightSkyeB4Dawn
While I agree what happened was wrong, they didnt put their hands on her. Two female teachers had her strip behind a blanket and they inspected the clothing for drugs