I don't even understand what leg the school is standing on here.

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Don't schools have other things to worry about...than FUCKING ADVIL?

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The school was absolutely unconscionable in what they did here, for all the reasons that have been already stated. Not questioning her, NOT CALLING HER MOTHER, and the strip search itself. Seriously, seriously, over the line. And if I'd been her parent and tried to talk (i.e. flip out at) the school after and got nowhere, I'd have been seriously tempted to call the police and report the nurse and secretary for child sexual abuse.

On a different note, one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet in the comments is that the girl was apparently so traumatized by the strip search that she stayed out of school "for months" before eventually transferring to another school. I absolutely understand the transferring part (and if I was her parent would have pretty much encouraged it), but I don't understand the staying out of school for months part. Maybe my parents were just unusually strict, but there's no way they would have let me stay home for anything longer than a day after something like that. Am I being unreasonable to think that? I'm truly asking, I really want to hear what others think about it.

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Back in my day (I'm only 2 years older than this girl) we robotripped and did coricidin.

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Kind of like how it must not actually be rape if the woman didn't scream and cry and fight back, right?

Christ.

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An 18 year old senior's car getting broken into by the school when another student told them he had a pack of cigarettes under his driver's seat;

A student getting expelled for the remainder of the school year for wearing a trench coat in the dead of winter which he'd had for 4 years and had been wearing for 4 years - all because it was the same week of Columbine. It was a poorer student who could not afford another coat. His parents appealed but he was still expelled;

A student was banned from graduating and had his diploma held for two weeks after graduation for daring to wear BROWN dress shoes instead of black, when the dress code clearly stated 'black clothing only';

A student was searched in front of our entire class for having a bag of m&ms in her backpack. They were peeking out of a pocket, though unopened and not being eaten - and when she said she didn't have any more candy the teacher didn't believe her and conducted a search;

I was cornered in the hallway my 9th grade year and measured, with a ruler, by two principals as my fellow students watched, because my shorts were 'too short' according to dress code. They were the proper length down to the inch, according to the student manual, but 'her legs are longer, she should have known better'.

We were also not allowed to have ibuprofen, tums, cough drops or any kind of over the counter medicines. We weren't even allowed to bring them into the school nurse, becuase she was 'too busy' to dole out stuff like that. Diabetics and other students who had medical needs through-out the day were treated by whatever teacher they happened to have that period, and half the time the teachers would refuse to interrupt class to do so and would make the kids wait until they were done with their lessons.

I think I just felt like ranting about my high school.

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