I read an article today that made me feel physically sick. I won’t give a full rundown but it involved a strip search of a 15 Year Old girl who was told to remove her sanitary pad.
The search ended and they found nothing. Ontop of that she was pulled out of an exam to have the search carried out. Imagine that, pulled out, legally violated and degraded by two officers you were taught to trust, send off, back to an exam to recount the trauma you just endured, in silence. The cherry a’top the cake for me was the item they were looking for. Weed. They stripped her down to look for cannabis, halfway through a school day. How much weed could this girl really have on her person that couldn’t be found emptying her pockets and an over the clothes pat-down? A gram? 2? Let alone behind a sanitary pad.
I don’t know what kind of teacher gave the green light for that. Teenage trauma speed run. Fuck up your kids with this one simple trick.