Should locker searchers be allowed? (school officials and civil rights activists debate whether random searches of school lockers should be allowed)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: January 29, 1996 | Copyright information

Many kids plaster photos of their favorite singers and actors on the inside of it. Others use it to house a vast collection of dirty gym socks and private notes from friends. It's also a decent place to unload books in between classes. What is it? It's a school locker. And for most kids, it's a tiny room away from home--the one place at school they consider their own.

But kids across the country are finding out their lockers aren't the private places they thought they were. ...

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