Locker Searches In Schools

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The principal should not be allowed to conduct random locker searches because of the searches being random. The principal would be searching random lockers and not specific ones. The searches should not be random because some of the people who actually have bad things in their lockers would have a lower chance of being caught. Contrary I am pro locker searches but not random locker searches. I am pro locker searches but anti-random locker searches because students the administration is worried about may not be check as often as they should be.

Locker searches should be done in school. The school should search lockers because I have heard stories about students having contraband in school. The students would store the drugs or weapons

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