Public school students do have a constitutional right to privacy. Their constitutional rights are not purged on entering the school premises. Although students possess these rights, I do believe that schools have a responsibility, within due bounds, for the safety of their students. Public schools have the constitutional right to conduct searches in an effort to keep the student body safe. Currently, the point at which discerning if the search is too extreme is nebulous. When is a search unreasonable? Public schools have the right to search personal property. What is the definition of property? The word is broad enough to cover backpacks, lockers, purses, cars, pockets or maybe even underwear. There many cases underway combating illegal strip searches in public school. Several of them deal with searching student’s underwear. This is a violation of …show more content…
The four levels are: Ideal decision making, practical decision making, reflective decision making and political decision making. The search and seizure methods used in the public school systems seem to fall under political decision making. Political decision making is when a decision is made for the good of the larger community (Dutelle, p. 25). Although there are those who strongly dislike the search and seizure method, it is used for the greater good for the greatest amount of people. This decision affects some people and even infringes upon someone’s rights, but the many people see it as beneficial to the majority to continue these searches and holding school officials accountable. Looking at this from a public administration perspective, we have to analyze the issues, review the facts and consider other perspectives on the matter; weigh the pros and cons of each decisional outcome and the values of each action. As a result of this analysis, the decision to search seems