Teachers at Rowville did nothing wrong based on your article 2007-06-02 Teachers frisk pupil for drugs - Herald Sun. The Victorian Government School Reference Guide instructs teachers with a "cause for concern" to instruct students to "empty their pockets or open their bags for inspection and a failure to comply with such an instruction is a discipline offence." It is only if the teacher thinks the student will not "imminently use" that they should put off the search. You can imagine the hysteria (probably from the same parents) if a teacher assumed the use was not "about to happen, or threatening to happen" and it did happen ! If hysterically defensive parents make schools operate like CSI, then there will be even less staff time and energy left for actually teaching !
Stephen Digby
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