In a demonstration of the fact that kids have about the same rights as your average "terror suspect," four teachers frisked an entire class of third graders
when five dollars turned out to be missing from the classroom. When a
substitute teacher discovered an envelope that had contained five bucks
for a school function was empty and in the trash, she first told the
students that if whoever took it came forward, there would be no
punishment. When no one surrendered, she, a student teacher, and a
teacher from another class and an aide searched the students' backpacks
and desks. Then they told students to remove shoes and socks (why, just
like going to the airport,) lined them up along the wall and patted
them down, sticking hands into some students' pockets. The money was
never found.
Many of the students and parents were upset, and one
girl said she and many of her classmates cried, especially when one
teacher...
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