Too Cute by Half

Many of the people who run our public schools are lunatics and PC nazis. Often they will suspend or even arrest kids who draw pictures of guns with their crayons. I can certainly understand their desire to keep drugs out of school, but this case is sheer lunacy:

SAFFORD, Ariz. — Savana Redding still remembers the clothes she had on — black stretch pants with butterfly patches and a pink T-shirt — the day school officials here forced her to strip six years ago. She was 13 and in eighth grade.

An assistant principal, enforcing the school’s antidrug policies, suspected her of having brought prescription-strength ibuprofen pills to school. One of the pills is as strong as two Advils.
The search by two female school employees was methodical and humiliating, Ms. Redding said. After she had stripped to her underwear, “they asked me to pull out my bra and move it from side to side,” she said. “They made me open my legs and pull out my underwear.”

Ibuprofen is not the slightest bit intoxicating, nor habit-forming. So what is the problem with a student bringing some to school? But here's the best part:

Ms. Redding said school officials should have taken her background into account before searching her.
“They didn’t even look at my records,” she said. “They didn’t even know I was a good kid.”
The school district does not contest that Ms. Redding had no disciplinary record, but says that is irrelevant.
“Her assertion should not be misread to infer that she never broke school rules,” the district said of Ms. Redding in a brief, “only that she was never caught.”

You got to love their logic. Hey Mr School District, can you prove you didn't kill Jimmy Hoffa? Since you haven't been caught, we cannot infer you didn't do it.