High school kids asked to lower pants
Some students at Lasalle High were told to lower their pants during a search for vaping paraphernalia recently. (The text here says “asked” but when you’re a student and the principal tells you to do something, it’s not a request, it’s an order.)
Although the school board claims it has the right, surely they must know this doesn’t look good.
CTV doesn’t mention a 2015 incident in which a Quebec City student was strip-searched. The Liberal education minister of the day, Yves Bolduc, defended the procedure, saying it was acceptable if done respectfully, which provoked a storm of protest and ended Bolduc’s political career. Quebec later promised that strip-searching students would no longer be permitted.
walkerp 16:21 on 2021-11-16 Permalink
This is one of the reasons being a teacher sucks so badly. You get caught up in the pressure of the rules and students behaving badly and it pushes you to cross certain boundaries that you would never do in any other situation. This situation will stain everyone involved, on the inside as much as the outside.
dwgs 10:07 on 2021-11-17 Permalink
Then stay true to your moral convictions and don’t cross those boundaries. One of the VP’s at a downtown EMSB school used to walk around the neighbourhood for a radius of several blocks at lunch hour looking for students vaping. If he found any they would be suspended, didn’t matter how far off school property they were. Kids also got suspended for getting into fights at house parties on the weekends or even on summer vacation. It’s ridiculous what we have become.
Ian 20:25 on 2021-11-17 Permalink
In my experience as a former student and now parent, Principals sometimes but VPs in particular are often power tripping morons. As a teacher, somehow I have made it thus far without forcing my students to strip. I can’t even imagine the koolaid swallowing required to think that was OK on any level.
There definitely are certain types, especially in administration, that just like bossing kids around. Sometimes they like it so much it moves into the criminal. Like any other kind of child predator they need to be rooted out and kept away from kids.