Adopting the probable cause as a search method in public k-12 schools will result in prejudice and unjust criminalization against minorities.

CON 1- Adopting the probable cause as a search method in public k-12 schools will result in prejudice and unjust criminalization against minorities.

Decades of research has shown that students of color are disproportionately disciplined in school, 25% of all African American students, nationally, were suspended at least once over a four-year period, according to the United States Department of Education. Torin Monahan (His research focuses on institutional transformations with new technologies, with a particular emphasis on surveillance and security programs) and Rodolfo D. Torres (specialized in Radical urbanism, Mexican American politics and labor, economic democracy, and Marxist inspired political economy)explain:  Perhaps not surprisingly, racial minorities are disproportionately subjected to contemporary surveillance and policing apparatuses ,meaning students in poorer inner-city schools are subjected to more invasive hand searches and metal-detector screenings, while students in more affluent schools tend to be monitored more discreetly with video surveillance cameras. Even when all socio-economic indicators are held constant African American children are still suspended and expelled at much higher rates than white students within the same schools. It's important to acknowledge that African-American and white students have equal referral rates for weapons; white students have much higher rate of referral for illegal drugs; and African Americans are referred at much higher rates for subjective offenses such as "disturbing schools", based on the finding of a new report by professor Russell Skiba (published extensively in the areas of school violence, school discipline and classroom management, and equity in education), The Color of Discipline: Sources of Racial and Gender Disproportionality in School Punishment. Federal and state disciplinary laws permit school officials to use their discretion when doling out punishments, meaning that if the probable cause standards is ought to apply for student searches it will most likely be referred or ordered by the same school officials that are treating the minorities in our schools as criminals, specially knowing that they could be pressed with charges that in other cases would be taken as typical school misconduct, for example, five young men being charged with felony assault for throwing peanuts, two ten-year-old boys facing felony charges for putting soap in a teacher´s water, and an eleven-year-old girl being arrested and dragged away in a police car for bringing a plastic knife to school in her lunch box to cut her chicken. This examples are relevant because they could mean that if the school´s officials want to unfairly punish minorities, as they already are doing, they could label the mentioned items as contraband when they really aren't achieving that goal.  Knowing that 47% of the students in public schools in the US are part of a minority (according to the National Center for Education Statistics) and certain minorities’ population as Hispanics is on the rise this could affect almost half of the US public school’s attendants.

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