The Fourth Amendment has been held to apply to schoolchildren in public schools. If a public school principal wanted to search the backpack of a student,

A) the public school principal could insist upon conducting a search for any reason or for no reason so long as the student was on a school property.
B) the police would have to become involved and actually make the search in order to protect the rights of the student under the Fourth Amendment.
C) the public school principal would need to notify the student's parents and would have to obtain the student's consent.
D) the public school principal would have to process reasonable suspicion that the student possessed items that violate law or that offend a school rule.
E) the public school principal would have to possess reasonable suspicion that the student possessed items that violate the law or that offend a school rule and would have to obtain a search warrant in order to make a lawful search.


D

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