I’ve thought one of the problems with public schools is that the legal relationship between the student and teacher is the same one as between the citizen and the police, and that discipline suffers accordingly. Well. I still think that’s true, but it seems that a principal in Charleston went off the deep end with a misguided drug search, and the police went right along with him with a mishandled drug search. Here the problem is that the police violated the rights of citizens; not the teachers violating the rights of students. And it will be completely counterproductive for future anti-drug efforts since they’ll be discredited by this bone-headed raid. You have to hope that, to quote Zell Miller out of context, “heads will roll!”

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