Searches at Schools Schooling has changed from when you were taught in a single-room with one teacher. Our schools are no longer a safe place to learn. Other elements like illegal street drugs, knives, other sharp objects, and guns are entering our schools. Children along with teachers are being hurt at schools. Every time the news has a story about children being hurt or killed at school parents got upset. There have been so many stories about different schools nationwide where students and teachers are being shot inside of their school. The parents are putting pressure on government to help. Now laws are being passed at local, state, and at the federal level, because of the number of killings and injuries that are escalating in the last couple of centuries. Parents need to feel that their children are safe at school. That is why I feel that schools should be allowed to do searches of students and school grounds so that children will not die or be hurt, even though some feel it is against the law and an invasion of privacy. …show more content…
“According to the U.S. Department of Education in 2010-11 school year, 5,000 cases of student possession of a firearm or explosive device, and 72,300 cases of possession of a knife or other sharp objects were reported. In the 2013 poll, more than 5 percent of those who took the poll strongly disagreed with the statement about feeling safe at school. Forty-seven percent agreed that they felt safe” (Blad). There were ten deaths in the 1970s, which escalated to one hundred eighty six in 1900s, and two hundred seventeen so far from 2000s. School policies are being handed out at the beginning of each year stating random or spontaneous checks would be done. Lockers, backpacks, purses or anything else that is on school grounds can be checked.