Dear Superintedent Richard O'Malley,

Occasionally on the news there is a school shooting or someone drug overdosing. When these occur everyone watching is disturbed. The Edison School Board has made a proposal to institute random locker searches. Little to no students will agree with this propsal. There are numerous negative consequences. It is a violation of our Constitutional rights. I will not actually improve safety. It will waste the administrators valuable time.
The Constitution clearly states that no one is subject to search without just cause. The school board is doing just that. There is no reason, just that there is a remote possibility that someone may have illegal paraphernalia. Those who agree with this proposal might say that if someone looks fine they may just be good at hiding things. This is facile. Ninety nine point nine percent of the time if someone looks fine they are fine.
The entire reason for this proposal is to improve safety. This will not atually happen. If someone has a messy locker it will be near impossible to find anything, let alone something the the temporary owner of the locker was trying to hide. If you did try to look through the trash in the locker it might all flow out. The person not bring the illegal paraphernalia to school that day. Those who oppose my opinion will probably say that they will clean it if they know someone is going to be searching it. Maybe students who don't have illegal things in their locker.
The administrators have many things to do. They are in charge of a school. Forcing them to search lockers will take up their time. They could be setting a student. Inspiring a boy/girl to stop messing around and throw themselves into school. The people who want this proposal to go through will most likely say that if an administrator finds the illegal paraphernalia that it will all be worth it. On almost all the searches nothing will be found. Usually if the person has something they will be acting suspiciously.
This proposal will not be beneficial to the school. It violates the students rights. The safety of the school will not actually improve. it will waste the administrators valuable time. This proposal will start an avoidable war.