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ELI5: How do American schools get away with searching students without a parents consent/search warrant?
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Schools in america (and lots of other countries where common law is used, so its really not all that strange or particularly american) act in the eyes of the law "in loco parentis" which is just a latin term meaning they take on some of the responsibilities of a parent.