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Attorney Melany Petrosky wrote on Apr 23, 2009 4:47 PM:

" Mr. Wilson has no business being a principal. His actions are inexcusable. Strip searching over ibuprofen tablets is completely unjustifiable. Furthermore, he is a male and should not have been in the room viewing a female student's private areas. Even if you take the view that the search was somehow justified, at the very least it should have been witnessed by a female administrator and her parents should have been present. Out of the school context it could easily be under the sex offender law. I hope he never works in any school system again for such amazing poor judgment. "




Brian Weinfurter wrote on Aug 27, 2008 10:06 AM:

" I can't imagine that poor girl. Her trust is now gone and she has to live with that for a long time. All persons involved in even the tiniest fraction should have any license or certifications revoked and have to stand in the local park nude for a weekend all while hold a bottle of aspirin!!!! Hope she gets whatever she wants. "




WHAT wrote on Jul 30, 2008 9:35 PM:

" I am a parent of a 20 yr old now. If this would of happened to my child, I would have went crazy. I dont care what that child was doing, nobody has that right to make a child strip like that. The parents should have been called first thing. I would have these school workers charged for sure. "




sam wrote on Jul 23, 2008 3:57 AM:

" Response to interested... You missed the point. It is about effective leadership, a character trait that a scared little man like Mr Wilson lacks. He lacked leadership in his classroom not just in his first year but through out his tenure as a teacher. Then another irresponsible leader appointed him Vice Principal.He had no right to compel a 13yr old girl to disrobe for his 'satisfaction'. No wait, my bad he was looking for ibuprophen based on the story of another 13yr old girl. Maybe Mr Wilson should've checked the medicine cabinet instead. "




interested wrote on Jul 22, 2008 1:16 AM:

" Wow, case has been going on for a few years, and all of you had all of the info in this short article. Maybe a little more to it? Referencing Mr. Wilson's first year teaching experience as a reason for him doing something like this, is silly at best. Look at the history of the school. Look at where it is today. Huge part due to Mr. Wilson. Huge mistake?, "Yes!!" HOw many of our local drug dealers dealt in that school because there was nothing ever done about it before. Huge mistake, but don't crucifytheguy. "




Conrarian wrote on Jul 19, 2008 9:45 PM:

" Get us out from under the 9th court before they wreck this nation. "




-yr Texan wrote on Jul 19, 2008 10:58 AM:

" What a pathetic excuse for school administration! How can Safford voters and parents tolerate this kind of sicko "discipline" in their schools? Barry Goldwater would puke in his grave at this kind of spineless acceptance of official abuse in an Arizona community.

Ms Redding & family deserve apology AND compen$ation. Safford should be ashamed. "




OMG wrote on Jul 19, 2008 8:47 AM:

" I cant believe they let that idiot take over an entire school when he couldnt even keep our class in control! I can only remember him as being weird, creepy, and judgemental! Poor kids have to put up with him!!! "




Mitch A. wrote on Jul 18, 2008 3:25 PM:

" This ruling is awesome. The strip search of a middle school student is completely uncalled for. Especially without the parent's consent or even without him or her being notified.
I was appauled to read the ruling in September and am glad it has been overturned.

I don't care if she was dealing anything, or handing it out. There are ways of dealing with that addressed in the school handbook. A strip search should have always been out of the question. "




a parent wrote on Jul 18, 2008 2:41 PM:

" It was only ibuprofen tablets, its not like they where hard drugs, and Mr Wilson had no right to have this girl stripped searched, without her parents there. Is Mr Wilson AZPOST certified? NO then he should be charged with sexual misconducted of minor. If you did this to someones kid they would charge you, so why not Mr Wilson. If my kids where searched like this I would press charges. "




sam wrote on Jul 17, 2008 4:02 AM:

" I was in seventh grade and it was Kerry Wilson's first year as a math teacher at (then) SJHS. The man couldn't control his class and was most of the time frightend of his students. In later years he would make statements and compare new students to their relatives and siblings such as "you have to keep an I on him or her because their uncles/aunts/brothers/ sisters were trouble." What idiot appointed Mr Wilson as Vice Principal. "




Mama Celeste wrote on Jul 16, 2008 3:31 PM:

" The story DOES NOT say there was ever any proof that the girl was passing out pills. That's the point. Wilson took another student's word to order the strip search. I wonder why the office secretary and the nurse complied with Wilson's order? "




Confused wrote on Jul 16, 2008 11:20 AM:

" Does she get off scott free for handing out pills to the kids? That seems a little unfair too! "