Students and the fourth amendment

         The fourth amendment protects citizens unreasonable searches and seizures. In the case of New Jersey vs. TLO , TLO was accused of smoking in the school bathroom. According to Theodore Choplick, the assistant vice principal, smoking in the school bathroom is violating school rules. Since TLO had violated the school rule of smoking in the school bathroom, I believe that the school had the right to search TLO's purse in result of her poor decision.
        In the Constitution, the fourth amendment does protect citizens unreasonable searches and seizures, however when any student is on school grounds, the rules may shift a little. Public schools in the United States are run by the government, which allows schools the right to search students if they are performing a suspicious act. I think it would be crucial to allow all students at any high school they attend, to be randomly drug tested. According to the article I debated from,  random drug testing reduces violent behaviors, classrooom disruptions, and criminal activity. I think that from this study, random drug testing would give fear to the students leading them not to participate in the act of using drugs. I belive that students would not get involved in criminal activity later in life, because there would be random drug testing stopping students from doing drugs leading them to possible psychological problems later in life. In the article "Student random Drug Testing -one compoment of a drug prevention program", student random drug testing would get parents involved in the school drug-prevention efforts. I think this would be crucial because parents would not have to try so hard to get their children in line, and they would know what their children are doing on the wekends.