Strip searched during exam: Students ordered to Take off clothes over missing cell phone
Strip searched during exam: Twenty-eight students were told to disrobe so that school staff could conduct a strip search during an exam after a missing cell phone raised concerns about cheating, UPI reported May 24.
The students, 10th graders at Cap-Jeunesse high school north of Montreal in Canada, were told to put their cell phones on a teacher’s desk to prevent cheating during a final math exam. But when one phone went missing, teachers made the students be strip searched during the final exam.
Students who were strip searched said they were put in a small room and told to take off bras and other items of clothing, and that some had their bodies touched by teachers.
Now, the school board is investigating, but their response may raise questions about how seriously they are taking the strip search incident. A school board official seemed to suggest that making students be strip searched during the exam wasn’t as terrible as it may sound to parents or students.
“In the heat of the action, the decision seemed the best,” said school board spokeswoman Nadyne Brochu. But Brochu also conceded that the strip search was probably a “disproportionate action under the circumstances.”
Parents of students who were strip searched were notified immediately, the school board said. Students will be able to re-take their final exams.
There’s no word yet on what will become of the teachers who forced the students to undergo the strip search.
The students, 10th graders at Cap-Jeunesse high school north of Montreal in Canada, were told to put their cell phones on a teacher’s desk to prevent cheating during a final math exam. But when one phone went missing, teachers made the students be strip searched during the final exam.
Students who were strip searched said they were put in a small room and told to take off bras and other items of clothing, and that some had their bodies touched by teachers.
Now, the school board is investigating, but their response may raise questions about how seriously they are taking the strip search incident. A school board official seemed to suggest that making students be strip searched during the exam wasn’t as terrible as it may sound to parents or students.
“In the heat of the action, the decision seemed the best,” said school board spokeswoman Nadyne Brochu. But Brochu also conceded that the strip search was probably a “disproportionate action under the circumstances.”
Parents of students who were strip searched were notified immediately, the school board said. Students will be able to re-take their final exams.
There’s no word yet on what will become of the teachers who forced the students to undergo the strip search.
