And before you ask ... yes they are.

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/4-girls-allegedly-strip-searched-at-middle-school


BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) -- A community firestorm has erupted over an alleged strip search of four 12-year-old girls at a New York middle school.

The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin says about 200 community members packed a heated school board meeting this week to discuss the incident.

They said the girls, who are black, were questioned and strip-searched by the school nurse and assistant principal because they seemed giddy during their lunch hour and were suspected of possessing drugs.

The local NAACP is demanding accountability measures.

The school district says it's sorry for the "unintended" consequence of "making the students feel traumatized." It says students may be required to empty their pockets and remove shoes or jackets.

Its statement made no mention of strip searches. A procedural review is planned.

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"I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that. ~ Francis Collins

how do they even remotely think this was the thing to do

Wtf

when my daughter was that age certain words would set them off and they would laugh until their sides hurt. It's what they do.

Meanwhile violation of agency by an adult.

>Wtf

right

at lunch time, too

this was not even during class (when kids are usually expected to be quiet)

It’s the only time you can really let loose at school.

This is one of the reasons I don’t want my kids going to a private school or a school that’s white white. They always punish Black kids for dumb shit.

Where is the white guy to swing on them ?

Which came as a response of being too visibly happy with friends
But I’m sure the layers of trauma they’ll spend building upon then unpacking would feel like a punch

while we were on a HBCU tour. Bunch of kids from Pittsburgh and 3 guys from LA flew over to go on the tour with us. They were cool as shit but a lot of the kids were treating them like shit because they watched colors and thought everyone banged because we were young and dumb.

6-0 and 220, all muscle and cried while it happened. It was fucked up. Can’t imagine how these 4 girls felt.

http://wnbf.com/binghamton-school-board-no-students-were-strip-searched/

The school board statement released Thursday afternoon said "officials acted in accordance with" established policy.

According to the statement: "No students were strip searched, nor were they punished as a result of the incident in question and they were allowed to return to class after being evaluated."

The board statement said during a student medical evaluation, there may be a need to remove "bulky outside clothing to expose an arm so that vitals like blood pressure and pulse can be assessed." The statement said "this is not the same as a strip search."

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On a similar note, I used to stay up late in high school and get little to no sleep, folks would see my red eyes the next day and be like "oh my GOD are you HIGH???" all the damn time.

Annoying af, people always assume the worst

Agreed. Sounds very damage-controlly worded to me.

Right? So much better :rolleyes:

An involuntarily medical exam is a-ok?

We must take vital signs because the girls were laughing?

yiiikes

https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/Binghamton-Demand-Letter-Final.pdf

The Unlawful and Demeaning January 15 Searches

I.S., J.B., I.M., and A.S. are Black and Latina, 12-year-old girls who, until the events of January 15, 2019, attended East Middle School in Binghamton, New York.1 Based on our preliminary investigation, we understand the January 15 Searches to have proceeded as described below. We reserve the right to supplement this account as our investigation continues.

On January 15, 2019, Mr. Tim Simonds, the principal of East Middle School, stopped the girls in the hallway during their lunch break. Mr. Simonds asked where the girls were headed. The girls laughed during this brief conversation with Mr. Simonds, who then—along with Assistant Principal Michelle Raleigh—escorted them to the school’s health office. Neither Mr. Simonds nor

Ms. Raleigh, both of whom are white, explained to the girls why they were taken to the health office.

The girls were held in the health office for approximately one hour. The nurse, Mary Ellen Eggleston, who also is white, brought each girl to the exam room for separate sessions without prior notification or consent from any of the girls’ parents. Once in the exam room, Ms. Eggleston conducted a vitals check, a sobriety check, and then a search on each girl. The searches varied amongst the girls, but all girls were made to remove at least some of their outer clothing, in some cases exposing their undergarments. During some of these searches, Ms. Eggleston also made embarrassing and humiliating comments about some of the girls’ bodies and physical condition.

The girls then remained in school the rest of the day, and three of them returned to class. They were not permitted to contact their parents despite explicit requests. Principal Simonds contacted three of their parents. He told those parents that their respective daughters were sent to the nurse’s office for a vitals check because they were “hyper” and “giddy.” He did not inform the parents that their children had undergone a sobriety check and strip search at school that day.
The girls have been traumatized by the January 15 Searches. They feel humiliated because they were forced to expose their bodies and were subject to embarrassing comments. They feel their dignity was violated by adults whom they trusted in what should have been a safe educational setting. And they are confused about why they were targeted for such degrading treatment by school staff. The girls have additionally experienced harm to their reputations. The sobriety check suggested that one or more school officials suspected them of having been under the influence. Peers have since asked at least one student if she uses illegal drugs.

In the days since the January 15 Searches, the girls have each exhibited despondent behavior symptomatic of trauma and depression, such as loss of appetite and excessive sleeping throughout the day. All of the parents agree that some form of therapy is necessary to address the harm that resulted from such traumatic experiences during a critical period in their development as adolescents.

The girls have been out of their normal school setting for nearly three weeks and out of school entirely for at least seven days because they feel uncomfortable and unsafe returning to East Middle School and have not been provided an adequate substitute. The girls have been attending classes from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm at an alternative school, which is wholly inappropriate given that the District’s own Code of Conduct states that placement at the alternative school is a disciplinary sanction. Instead, our Clients demand that the girls receive a quality education at the other middle school in the District, West Middle School.