Public School Abuse: Drop Your Pants So We Can Check for PoopHeather Callaghan Apparently, if its a sanctioned sexual violation of children by an adult stranger in a government institution no biggie! These would be the same people sanctioned to teach sex ed, with some of the topics being protection from just such an event. Thats what happened on Monday in Gustine, Texas. In an incident that would make B.F. Skinner giddy, two dozen elementary students from Gustine Independent School District were rounded up, separated into groups of boys and girls in separate rooms and ordered to pull down their pants to check them to see if they could find anything. The teachers claimed they had been finding fecal matter on the gym floor. Such a disregard for dignity and privacy did not go unnoticed One mom, Maria Medina, said: I was furious I mean, I was furious. If you cant do your job or you dont know what youre doing, you need to be fired. You shouldnt be here.Wrong is Wrong. She didnt think feces on the floor justified a partial strip search. Her daughter Eliza tried to protest but was told she had to, because all the kids had to. At least one was age 11 11! Like Eliza who said, I felt uncomfortable, and I didnt want to do it. I felt like they violated my privacy, she said with a maturity and vocal ability that doesnt implicate dropping dookies on the floor. The Superintendent gives the obligatory thats not appropriate and we dont condone that and says So you would take disciplinary action. No, you would. Then, just like that, he minimizes by saying his understanding is that they were told to lower their pants just a little. To check their underwear! Eliza, who has a functioning intellect, knows what happened to her and clarified the situation. How far did they have to pull their pants down. Liketo where your butt is, she said. Her mom doesnt believe the school and finds it all unacceptable. Part of me wonders if schools are pushing the envelope, with the media glorifying it to get people used to the idea. I mean, what made it sound like an appealing idea to the teachers involved? Now its a national conversation to see if maybe we can find a much better way to solve this, as the Superintendent said. While an internal investigation is ongoing, parents are attending the school board meeting Thursday night to demand accountability. What I really want to point out with this story is the insanity of abuse and blame toward students to aggressively deflect from what is actually not WWIII. Not many common sense people would think of this route first. And what would happen if they discovered poopy underwear in front of everyone? What were they going to do the culprit? Rub his nose in it? BLAME will solve it. Why is it ever acceptable for school systems to treat children with such degradation that is not acceptable anywhere else? But thats actually what they did to irrationally pretend to solve a problem. On a twisted power trip, they senselessly shamed them all, violated them and did not solve the problem. Schools that allow this madness are further proving that kids in public school are objects of the state, to be treated poorly. Some damage isnt easily undone. How can they wonder at growing homeschooling rates if parents never know what their child might be subjected to next? I once wrote about a school pressured to stop making children kneel before their principal. It turns out, it was happening elsewhere, but was under the radar until parents discovered the practice and spoke up. Daisy Luther wrote about her own daughters experience with this practice and said, When children are exposed to this type of ritual at an early age, it programs them to find subservience acceptable. It shuts off that little mechanism in their developing awareness that says, This makes me feel bad. It teaches them that this is normal and appropriate. Related stories: Recent posts byHeather Callaghan: 