PLN 10

I have read an article called ACLU decries school cellphone searches, by Kieren Nicholson which talks about how school administrators are violating students' rights to privacy when they checked students' cellphone text messages. I had started when a teacher was checking a student for cigarettes and did not find any in his pockets or backpack, so the teacher checked the students texts. The student was then interrogated because the teacher found some of the texts suspicious! Many other students' cell phones were checked too. I think that having a teacher checking students' text messages is unnessesary. They should not go into and read them for no reason. As for the student and and him smoking, why does the teacher need to get involved, and how does looking at text messages prove he was smoking? If the teacher found nothing when searching his pockets and backpack, then why did the teacher need to check his phone? This is like how at my school, teachers and the principle can look at peoples e-mails that they wrte at school. Well, some people don't like it, but they could say, Hey at least they only check the ones here at school. But why would you write something that you don't want teachers to see? I think that it is good to check e-mails at school to avoid threatining and such, but not text messages.