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Should Schools Have School Wide Searches
Matthew Conchola

ELA 6/7

Mrs.King

18 March 2016

Should Schools have School Wide searches?

Schools should be allowed to conduct random searches of your private items for many reasons. All across the U.S kids have been disobeying and doing a lot of stuff that might be illegal or bad.
The school tragedies in Littleton, Jonesboro, Springfield, West Paducah, and Pearl ,these communities brought the threat to school safety into the public conscience and moved school safety onto the U.S. public agenda. Safety threats, once thought to be only an urban problem, are a concern for urban, rural, and suburban areas alike. Although schools are among the safest places for children to be, education policymakers and administrators continue to

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