SCHOOL SEARCHES DON'T SEEM LEGAL

To The Editor: I had to write in support of the mom who wrote that her son's
school is regularly searched by drug sniffing dogs. I, too, find this most
disturbing. I agree with her that our children need to be monitored and that
should be the parents' responsibility.

If an unborn child deserves full protection under the law, so should our
children going to school. When do their rights end, and when do they begin?
At what age?

I have questions. Do these searches take place in certain schools or in all
schools? Do they search just public schools or private schools as well? When
they search, do they search the whole school, including the principal's
office and the teachers' lounge?

What's next? Will we have dogs patrolling the Wal-Mart parking lot or inside
the Blue Ridge Mall or up and down Main Street? What about school-sponsored
events like football and basketball games?

Something smells unlawful, and I'm not talking about illegal drugs.

Jeff Isleib

Hendersonville