LA MARQUE, Texas - Ten students between the ages of 11 and 12 were strip-searched as officials at their charter school tried to find a missing $10 bill.
Seven girls and three boys at the Mainland Preparatory Academy were searched down to their underwear Thursday after one of the girls reported the money missing, said Principal Wilma Green. The money was not found.
"It's not illegal," La Marque Police Chief Richard Price said. "We don't see it as a criminal offense." But he said an investigation was underway.
The search angered at least one parent, who filed a complaint with police and pulled her four children out of the school.
"I have never signed a consent to let my kids be strip-searched — never," said Shelli Owens, the mother of a 12-year-old boy who was searched.
Green said the school has conducted such searches in the past without calling parents.
"Never had a complaint," she said. "I can't say if it happened again I wouldn't do the same thing."
In Thursday's search, the boys were sent off with a male teacher and the girls with a female teacher, who told them to strip to their underwear, Green said.
"Nobody objected to it. Most of the kids didn't mind because they wanted to get their name cleared," she said. "It was no different than what the students would be doing when they would be in P.E. We searched everything down to the socks."
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That's pretty fucked. If that was me I wouldn't have let them, they can kick me out, I don't give a shit. You don't fucking strip search children. In fact, I don't think anyone should be strip searched for such a minor offense, even if it is just to their underwear. What kind of message is that sending to kids? Not just the removal of clothes and the search, but the fact that their word wasn't good enough. Ten dollars!
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That's pretty fucked. If that was me I wouldn't have let them, they can kick me out, I don't give a shit. You don't fucking strip search children. In fact, I don't think anyone should be strip searched for such a minor offense, even if it is just to their underwear. What kind of message is that sending to kids? Not just the removal of clothes and the search, but the fact that their word wasn't good enough. Ten dollars!
never in the history of the earth, has a 11-12 year old lied huh
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Peeps wrote:
vacatetheword wrote:
That's pretty fucked. If that was me I wouldn't have let them, they can kick me out, I don't give a shit. You don't fucking strip search children. In fact, I don't think anyone should be strip searched for such a minor offense, even if it is just to their underwear. What kind of message is that sending to kids? Not just the removal of clothes and the search, but the fact that their word wasn't good enough. Ten dollars!
never in the history of the earth, has a 11-12 year old lied huh
Well, they didn't find the money did they. Even if one was responsible, only one of them would have been lying, so even before it was done they knew they were about to punish at least nine innocent people.
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That's despicable
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It's excessive, but get the fuck over it. These kids were probably known to have done this in the past.
And I'll bet you 10 dollars they'll never steal again, unless they like getting naked, having it published in the paper, in middle school no less. That's some traumatizing shit.
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CommonWord wrote:
It's excessive, but get the fuck over it. These kids were probably known to have done this in the past.
And I'll bet you 10 dollars they'll never steal again, unless they like getting naked, having it published in the paper, in middle school no less. That's some traumatizing shit.
I don't know if there was any humor intended here, but this rationale sounds strangely reminiscent of the justification for the selection and subsequent treatment of detainees we've been hearing about...
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It's excessive, but get the fuck over it. These kids were probably known to have done this in the past.
And I'll bet you 10 dollars they'll never steal again, unless they like getting naked, having it published in the paper, in middle school no less. That's some traumatizing shit.
I don't know if there was any humor intended here, but this rationale sounds strangely reminiscent of the justification for the selection and subsequent treatment of detainees we've been hearing about...
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CommonWord wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
CommonWord wrote:
It's excessive, but get the fuck over it. These kids were probably known to have done this in the past.
And I'll bet you 10 dollars they'll never steal again, unless they like getting naked, having it published in the paper, in middle school no less. That's some traumatizing shit.
I don't know if there was any humor intended here, but this rationale sounds strangely reminiscent of the justification for the selection and subsequent treatment of detainees we've been hearing about...
--PunkDavid
It was humor. I don't believe in the .
Good. Me too.
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vacatetheword wrote:
Peeps wrote:
vacatetheword wrote:
That's pretty fucked. If that was me I wouldn't have let them, they can kick me out, I don't give a shit. You don't fucking strip search children. In fact, I don't think anyone should be strip searched for such a minor offense, even if it is just to their underwear. What kind of message is that sending to kids? Not just the removal of clothes and the search, but the fact that their word wasn't good enough. Ten dollars!
never in the history of the earth, has a 11-12 year old lied huh
Well, they didn't find the money did they. Even if one was responsible, only one of them would have been lying, so even before it was done they knew they were about to punish at least nine innocent people.
Exactly. Punishing a group for acts of an individual is inappropriate in schools, particularly when it crosses the lines of adults ordering children to take their clothes off. I'd have the head of that teacher/principal on my table for dinner if that were my child.
It's excessive, but get the fuck over it. These kids were probably known to have done this in the past.
And I'll bet you 10 dollars they'll never steal again, unless they like getting naked, having it published in the paper, in middle school no less. That's some traumatizing shit.
I don't know if there was any humor intended here, but this rationale sounds strangely reminiscent of the justification for the selection and subsequent treatment of detainees we've been hearing about...
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