Randomly searching students fails LAUSD kids on so many levels

To the editor: I read "Do L.A. Unified's daily random searches keep students safe, or do they go too far?" and shuddered. Los Angeles Unified School District officials should be ashamed and embarrassed over the dehumanizing way they treat students. How can anyone connected with this fiasco condone such an assault on their students' personhood or create such a threatening environment so adverse to learning? Parents and students have complained, community groups have protested, the American Civil Liberties Union has become involved, but nothing changes. Perhaps now with the curtain pulled back for the broader public to see, this mean-spirited breach of trust in the name of safety will be stopped.