Clinton third-grader strip-searched after being accused of stealing

Yes, assistant principals have the authority to search student's persons, lockers, backpacks, etc.for dope, knives, guns, stolen property or whatever other contraband/evidence may be secreted. That way, teachers and admin help protect students from other students in what is, according to law enforcement, our nation's most dangerous workplace. Sometimes they even take a bullet.

However, given the robust lack of respect for teachers and school authorities promulgated by a media that also loves to publicly castigate police for sport, this administrator should have called for back up. She should have swept aside the needs of her entire student body that day and instantly called school police.

She should have escalated the incident, filed a report on the child, had him formally interviewed in the presence of school police, then formally charged him with theft and ensured the incident was entered as a permanent part of the boy's school record.

The parent then would be free to continue her duties to counsel her son on his behavior as part of an authorized district-sanctioned behavior plan that would include expulsion from school as a consequence of further incidents of stealing and/or lying.

Thank you, cakdep1, for recognizing the teacher's role in our society as parents in the absence of parents. Especially when present parents equal absent parents due to total neglect of their role in the moral training of their children.

Present company excepted, of course. lol

This will not turn out well.

Does a "school administrator" have strip search authority? I thought that was restricted to sworn Law Enforcement personnel only.