PLN #10

I recently read the article Phone Searches Spark Protest in the denver post. It spoke about a local school hving txt message seaches on teir phones. They board of the school says they wanted to check for drug deals and maybe bombing or killing in the txt's. The students said that this is not an " ok" thing to do and that this is just as bad if not worse than reading someone elses mail. Usaullt text messages are personal or they could just be asking what the homework is or asking whats up. It is true that students in the past have been cuaght dealing drugs via text message and telling them the detials about it. I no this becuase in my school in Long Island a couple of kids were caught with drugs and there phones were taken away and their text messages were read and it spoke about the drug deal and when and where. I still dont agree with this phone check though. It is thier phone not the schools and it is illegal to do such an action. Agian text messages are personal and if the school reads everyones they would mostly read peoples coversations and boy friends talking to thier girls thats probebly it. There are exeptions like the few kids that do talk about horrible things like school shootings or drugs I think just the suspected kids with a record should be checked. Maybe not even them becuase it is illegal but if the school really thinks something is going to happen with a certin kid or group of students they should talk to the police instead of taking it into thier own hands. This relates to the world becuase this has probebly accured somewhere else and kids are kids no matter where they are so they probebly responded the same way as the kids at this school.