Well I meant to mention this earlier but about a week ago in first period one of the teachers peeks his head in the door and asks for my 1st period teacher to come here. Well they are talking pretty quiet but I can hear what they are saying. I hear, "when the bell rings tell all your students to stay in their seats. Well after the bell rings we're all in our seats still. I knew something was up. Then I hear lots of footsteps come down the hall and I hear a dog's little high pitched sigh. And men in "blue" suits. Next thing we know we have and officer come into our room with a cardboard box and he says, "Allright, I'm ______ from the Kingston police department. You got 60 seconds to put anything illegal in this box and when I come back in you wont be arrested (including cellphones). Next thing you know the cardboard box is filled with cigarettes, blunts, lighters, and about 20+ cellphones in a 30 person class. I heard that other rooms had pills in the boxes, bags of weed and cocaine in them. After the 60 seconds we are ordered to go out in the hall ways. I see about 11 cops in this particular hallway out of almost 1000 student body total. A k-9 then sweeps by us and all the lockers "suspected" are also checked.

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Once you think it's over it's not. about 15 minutes after the in-school raid, all the cars are gone over by drug dogs, about 20 cars are searched, 11 cars have paraphenailia (bad spelling) and 11 kids are hand cuffed and taken away. All the streets to the school and parking lots are blocked off and no students are allowed to check out or leave. It was a very crazy expiriece, and needless to say I did NOT have anything illegal. and the one day i didnt bring my cellphone, was this day.
anyone had anything similar?

-ace

P.S. I'd say there were about 20 cop cars, 30 cops, 1 state trooper, 1 k-9 suburban, and 2 knoxville tv stations there.

Yep. About once a month for us. But we hardly do the box thing. The other week there were 43 arrests (at the same time) at the local bowling alley. Let's see, there was under-age drinking, smoking, drugs, drunk in public. Some people were having sex an public and all this other stuff. Our place is like the nimber one place in the state for drugs and stuff like that. About 2 months ago there were 3-4 fights in one week. One of the fights was over a CELL PHONE and both people were my friends. It starts to get really stupid after a while. We had 15 cars searched out for drugs and stuff. We have about 2000+ people in our school and cops and security guards are at our school every day. We even have student security guards, i.e. narks, at our school.

Since when are cellphones illegal?  I mean, if it's against school policy, they can take the phone away while you are in school and suspend you a couple days.  But that's personal property not restricted by government law (unlike underage smoking) Of course, the little punks should have the things turned off!

I'm glad I'm years out of high school.  The whole situation is screwed up.  Getting lined up like criminals, possessions confiscated, unreasonable search and seizure.  Of course, the parents refulsing to take responsibility for their children's upbringing, lawyers involved... I suppose it has come to this sort of reaction.  Ridiculous though Let people be free, and when they misstep, lay the smack down on that individual.

dang! sex in public, they must've been pretty shatfaced! lol

Yea, shatfaced and then some. People are always high and drunk at my school. Its crazy. But I would like to mention on this board i have NEVER smoked weed or anything like that.

cops came in same kind of deal, but when they were searching the room they used a new k9.  They planted a baggie of weed for the dog to find as part of the training.  Nothing was found in the class but about 10 minutes later the cop barged back into the room, went to some kids bag and took out the stash they had planted for the dogs training.  it would have been neat to find out later that day that you had been hooked up by the cops.

Quote from: ACEYou got 60 seconds to put anything illegal in this box and when I come back in you wont be arrested (including cellphones).

School policy can state that no cellphones are allowed, but the police cannot arrest you for violating school policy.  That's a school matter.  The school can eject you, suspend you... whatever.  But not a criminal arrest, unless you break the law... a REAL law, enacted by a real legislature.  

Besides, unless they were going to body-search you, they're not going to find a cell-phone.  Not unless they bring some GSM-sniffing dogs next time.

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Quotei have NEVER smoked weed or anything like that.

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okay we believe ya  :nana:

I remember that ridiculousness from my high school days. The one instance that sticks out in my mind is the time one of the drug dogs took a piss on a guy's backpack that was laying in the floor. Of course, we weren't in the room at the time of the search, so we just assume it was the dog and not an officer that relieved himself.

hey ace is there a "well" endowed female at your school by the name of loni/lani?

Yea the whole cell phone thing has me perplexed.  There is no way they can take away property like that.  If my cell phone was confiscated I'd be taking them to small claims court.

Oh yea and who in their right mind would put cigarettes and lighters in the box also.   May be against school policy but unless they physically search you they won't catch you with it.

Hey, was John Ashcroft there?  :nana:

Jeebus. That's unheard of where I am. It just seems to me like a completely blatant disregard for constitutional rights. I mean, if there were kids that were acting suspiciously and they were searched, that's one thing. But to go into a school and make everyone do that? Did anyone's parents complain to the school and/or Police department?

I can't even relate to this due to the fact that I've been out of the primary education system for so long. All that I can think of when I hear of such "raids" is that I survived the public school system without them. It seems like such a friggin waste of time.

We worried about grades, not police.

Quote from: bbanjoI can't even relate to this due to the fact that I've been out of the primary education system for so long. All that I can think of when I hear of such "raids" is that I survived the public school system without them. It seems like such a friggin waste of time.

We worried about grades, not police.

My thoughts exactly, How are you supposed to learn in this kind of environment???  I'm only 3 years out of public HS and fortunatly we never had anything like this.  Yes everyone knew there were drugs around(quite a bit it seemed like), but things were dealed with on a case by case basis and everyone else was able to learn without all that ridiculous distraction.  NO, not everyone was caught, probably very few, but at least our privacy was respected for the most part.  And I came out with a very good education.

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That's absolute   . Hearing stuff like that just pisses me off
That's when you tell the cops to go f' themselves.
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I can understand the drugs... even searching for them, if they have K9s and aren't using it as an excuse to just search whatever they feel like searching.

Drugs in school are a problem.  I don't care if you're into that kind of thing, don't bring it to school.

However, whats up with the cell phone thing?  How are those illegal?  they aren't illegal in Utah, and if they are just against school policy, the cops certainly can't confiscate them.

Well in the ancient times some kids would go out to the parking lot and get high and it didn't seem to hurt anybody.  I don't know, today things are all different.  A kid sneaks out of his home, gets drunk (illegal underage drinking), drives around with a car full of friends (other minors in a car with an underage driver is also illegal in mass) and crashes and kills himself and injures all his buddies.  Instead of the school saying "Hey, look at him, he broke the law and dies because of his own stupidity" the school holds a vigil, cancels classes, eulogizes what a great kid he was  

WTF is wrong with people?  Self responsibility people.  Learn it.  Live it. Love it.