Although it doesn’t involve criminal charges, that’s pretty much what Savanna’s suit against the school district is all about.

Parents already have such little say about what goes on at school, where their children spend 40 hours a week. Why are we letting the government parent our children? I really hope the Court can come to some kind of common sense before the opinion is written.

Imagine this scenario. Your 13-year-old daughter comes home from school crying. You find out that the girl who lost the leading role in the upcoming school play to your daughter reported her to the gym teacher for sneaking some Tylenol into her clothing. She also has minor blood smears on her clothing.

“Everybody” knows the teacher is a lesbian, except for school administrators and parents like you who don’t hang out with these sorts of people very often (editorial note: Jesus is reported to have hung out with prostitutes). What no one knows is that this particular lesbian is also a sexual predator. Most aren’t, but your child is the one who received the unlikely draw of the cards.

I realize that your daughter would never sneak a Sudafed, much less a Tylenol. She’s a really good girl and you have every last reason in the world to feel proud of her.

Think about how your will feel when you end up telling your daughter the following: “What they did to you is horrible. It’s OK, honey, though. God will know that you are a virgin on your wedding day, even if your husband can’t find that proverbial proof.”

Likewise, it could be your 13-year-old son who was taken advantage of by some male perp. They are talking about body cavity searches in reports about this case right now.

Any parent, Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, who isn’t pissed off about this case doesn’t deserve the space I allow dead flies on my flyswatter.

As I stated before, if this had happened to one of my children, I’d be writing this from jail.

I don’t see how you managed to write about this today. For the first time since 9/11, I’ve been too angry to place reasonable words to my thoughts on a topic.

All I can manage to say at this moment is if that had happened to my daughter, I’d be composing this message from a jail cell.

Really?

So when should the Fourth Amendment finally come into the picture?

I wonder if it would effect the vote if someone accused Justice Breyer of muling Advil at his health club, and they shook out his boxers.

But to me it is utterly and totally ridiculous and appalling that school officials would have the authority to order a strip search based only on one unsupported verbal tip. As I understand what happened, one student was caught with one pill, and she implicated another student, who then implicated this girl. Would ANY of us submit to a strip search of this kind on such flimsy evidence, let alone allow our children to submit to it?!? This didn’t even involve any law enforcement officials, to my knowledge – this was just school officials acting on their own.

When asked, the district’s lawyer asserted that the district had the authority to do so. One of the Justices asked if that authority even went so far as a body cavity search. The response was that school staff weren’t trained for that – which presumably means that if they HAD had training for that (God forbid!), this poor girl might have gotten the rubber-glove treatment to boot. Truly frightening.

That will work out quite nicely, I’m sure.

The death of common sense in this country has to do with a lot more than just the war on drugs.