The locker and the backpack are two places students store their personal property. However some student exploit it for their own purpose such as hiding harmful weapons or drugs in these places. It could become an implicit threat, if it isn’t monitored. That’s the main reason that some schools did locker searches because of the security problem. In fact, monitoring by using random searches isn’t the only answer because it’s acknowledged as invading the privacy of students. The dilemma is how not to only keep student from danger, but to also respect their privacy. The problem in reality has lots of other solutions besides locker searches such as using trained police dog and using security measures.
First of all, lock searching shouldn’t be allowed because students have their own privacy. Students all have their own secrets, they usually keep them in some places where they think anyone couldn’t find out their secret. For example, some students have some unforgettable memories about what they did wrong in the past. They have been obsessed by them a long time, so they hide it in their locker because they thought it could help us find the rest in their soul. However they still check it usually. That’s the main reason which explains why they open their locker frequently. Even if that student isn’t doing anything wrong, some teachers still suspect may be hiding something illegally. From this point towards their action, they persist in searching thoroughly that student’s locker. It could impact on that student negatively. Especially that student could have experienced some miserable situation in the past, and it made them become very sensitive about effect from outside. The action of the teacher can make them get depressed, and the consequences are left very serious because psychological trauma is very hard to be cured. The students would then have to get along with this psychological disease in their whole life.
Although, schools might be one of the safest places for young people, there are still some serious risks. For instance, “A teenager who may have had a grudge against a teacher opened fire Friday with a shotgun at a suburban Denver high school, wounding two fellow students before killing himself.”(CBCNEWS). There are risky situations like these which must be prevented before it has a chance to happen. Instead of locker searchers, schools can keep some trained trained police dogs and guide them around. These dogs have a sensitive nose, so they can find out where drugs are hidden without eyesight. Then teachers can open and search it. I believe it wouldn’t be incorrectly, if they had a reasonable reason for opening the
