i go to a catholic school, we are required to have laptops.
without my permission or acknowledgment they took my laptop and took it to be searched through.
i thought at first i had it stolen when i went to get my backpack too.
so is a private catholic school above the law so that they can steal my backpack and go through my private stuff without my consent? now they are even holding it hostage and are making my parents pick it up!!
2007-12-19 13:31:47 · 13 answers · asked by hello 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
They have the right to do anything they think will keep our kids safe at school.Grow up and stop being such a baby.
2007-12-19 13:38:27 · answer #1 · answered by Ronboy 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Life is a learning experience. I'm not sure if the school has a right to search your laptop. But they did. What are you gonna do, sue them? Soon's you try, the school will expel you. They're not *required* to keep you on.
I think the school has more right to search your backpack if they suspect guns or drugs.
Searching your laptop is unjustified unless they can document that you carried criminal information in your laptop. If you have an email stating "Yeah, I cheated on that history exam," that's wrong on your part. But I'm not sure the school has a right to search for that. It's up to them to structure the exam so you can't cheat, not to perform ex post facto Fourth Amendment searches of information on your laptop.
Parents are notorious for taking sides with authority. If you are lucky enough to have former-hippie parents, they may have some counter-culture backbone in 'em so they'll take your side. If you have something on there that they don't like, that could be another matter.
Let this be a learning experience. Password-protect your laptop. Even the monsigneur may have some trouble busting a decent password without Divine intervention. (Need anyone caution you about using "password" as a password? Ditto your name, the school name, your family name, etc. ) Get some help from the computer club geeks.
2007-12-19 13:54:01 · answer #2 · answered by going_for_baroque 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Was there any harm in your child's teacher going through the backpack? Was anything taken, or was it jsut a way for the teacher to help get your daughter organized? If the teacher had good intentions of helping your child and there was nothing in the bookbag suspicious, what's the big deal? I would just tell your daughter that the teacher was helping her get a little organized and be done with it. No harm was done. If you really want, next time ask the teacher to send a note home when she starts to see a problem arise. Then, make sure you follow up to fix the problem (the messiness) What ever happened to parents going to the teacher for their side of the story?
2016-04-10 08:43:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they can. I go to a private catholic high school also, and we have laptops, and before we started school you or your parents signed a waiver giving them the right to search stuff without permission, but even if you didnt, once things are at school, they are on school property, and they become the schools property.
2007-12-19 13:36:36 · answer #4 · answered by Adum 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yep, they sure can. Especially at a private Catholic school. The rules are for the protection of all the students.
2007-12-19 14:45:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
well they have the right to do so if they had probable cause to suspect you were doing sumthing bad or against skwl policies... so if you did sumthing like dat then you shouldnt even be complaining cuz its your fault but if you didnt do anything like dat then they dont have the right to search you for no reason but since its a private catholic skwl rules maybe diffrent they might have the right to search without your consent or knowledge if they have a written permission.
2007-12-19 13:36:44 · answer #6 · answered by mave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Talk to a legal advisor about weither this was a breach of your privacy or not. In New Zealand, if a school did that they would have to have a good reason otherwise it is a breach of privacy even if the bag was on school grounds.
2007-12-19 13:47:30 · answer #7 · answered by Archer10002 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I hate to get all technical, but under the law any person property that is on anybody elses real property(real estate) belongs to them. I had to learn this to get my real estate license.
2007-12-19 13:43:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yup private school essentioally means: can make up our own rules and nobody can tell us otherwise, even the government, becasue the govenrment is supposed to stay out of buisiness affairs, adn a private school is essentially a buisiness. its like once you step onto campus you are stepping out of america and into a fascist regime, believe me I went to LMU. they are fascists, but they are sadly totally and completely within their rights to do what they are doing, remember YOU paid them, to go there, they can now do what they please, and if you dont like it, leave and go to public school where there are real rules, for both staff and student.
2007-12-19 13:39:26 · answer #9 · answered by take it or leave it 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't think so. maybe someone spread lies about you and told "management" that they thought you were doing something wrong. Ordinarily this would fall under invasion of privacy but seeing as it's a school...
2007-12-19 13:37:47 · answer #10 · answered by ARAX 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋