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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP asking about leaving phones at home. DD came home yesterday and said if you don't bring a phone to WL, you have to get your bag searched every day.[/quote]

This is fake news, this is a PP quoting their DD not actual APS policy.

There is zero teachers who want to search someone’s bag, there’s the risk of being poked by contraband, or accused of theft or damaging valuables. Just not something they wanna do.

I’m sure the policy is just that if you do get seen with the phone, there will be consequences that are more severe. If you put in a claim that you do not have a phone.[/quote]

I'm also quite skeptical of this story, because it's almost certainly not legal. Case law on bag searches is pretty consistent that absent a safety concern (i.e. weapons, drugs), you can't have a blanket policy of searching people's belongings for so-called policy violations (i.e. chewing gum) nor can you do random spot checks. And if you want to search a specific person's bag you have to have a reasonable grounds for suspecting the search will turn up evidence of a violation. If this happens routinely it's setting APS up for a lawsuit, which is why I suspect that it's not happening routinely.

So one of three things is most likely happening: 
1. The student is lying and it didn't happen. 
2. The student experienced it, but it was because there was a reason for performing the search they didn't realize, such as the student habitually lies about the cell phone and gets caught, the student was already seen using it earlier, someone ratted them out, etc. 
3. An overzealous teacher attempted this one or more times on their own initiative but will likely get shut down quickly once word gets to the administration. [/quote]

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