WTF?!!! I don't think that finding out who actually brought ibuprofen pills to school is reason enough to conduct a strip search!Especially on an eighth grader!But,apparently Arizona school officials thought that it was the appropriate action to take!
They made Savana Redding(pictured above) strip down to her underwear!Then,school officials had the poor girl shake her bra & panties out just to make sure there were no pills!Here's more on this case from CBS News:
"The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the case of a young Arizona honor student who was strip-searched in the eighth grade by school officials looking for ibuprofen pills.
Savana Redding and her mother have been fighting the Safford Unified School District in Safford, Ariz., since 2003.
That's when Savana - then a 13-year-old honor student - was called to the principal's office.
"Once they got me into my underwear I thought they would let me put my clothes back on," she told CBS News correspondent Hattie Kauffman. "But then they told me to pull out my bra and shake it, and my underwear as well."
When another student was found with ibuprofen pills, she blamed Savana. After a search of her backpack came up empty, the school nurse and a female secretary performed a strip search.
Kauffman asked Redding what she was thinking after the procedure.
"You know, I couldn't think about going back to school," she said. "I didn't want to see those people ever again."
The search didn't turn up any drugs. The ACLU sued the district and will argue Savannah's case before the Supreme Court.
"Child health experts are backing Savana in this case," said ACLU attorney Adam Wolf. "They agree that a strip search of a child inflicts trauma similar in kind and degree to sexual abuse."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.
