Student Privacy in School

          In the case Board of Education vs. Earls, students were forced to consent with randoming drug testing if they were in any extracurricular activites. Two students and their families went against this, saying that it was in violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. The case was later brought up to the supreme court where it was ruled that students in extracurricular activies have a diminished expectation of privacy and the school was completely within their rights to administer the random drug testing. They also used the precedent from the Vernonia School District 47J v. Acton case. That case was very similar to the previous case in which the Supreme Court ruled with the school saying they were reasonable in light of the schools' interest in preventing teenage drug use.
           I disagree with the school and courts decision to allow random drug testing at the school. I find it a huge invasion of privacy to require students to give up their urine to the school administration. If students don't have any privacy rights in school then what do they have. If the school can take away this amendment right then what's stopping them from taking all their other rights away from them. I feel like when the school is given this power to take away their right to privacy, then it could lead to more restriction and the school will just get power hungry and take away all their rights.
          After reading the article about the drug sniffing dogs, I was even more against this whole scenario. Bringing drug sniffing dogs to the school is not only a huge disruption to the learning environment, but it could also bring up health issues with the students. Their could be multiple students with dog allergies so this could cause further complications. I feel as though the disruption this can cause to the school would be very bad. When the dogs are at the school, I would imagine that no one can focus and everyone's minds are just on the dogs and what they're doing at the school.