By Tyler B. Reed/ Daily News Staff
> "We reserve the right to look through the cell phone," Principal
> Michael Welch said. "It would be no different than if a student were
> to have a notebook. We've had instances of graffiti. We've looked
> through a notebook and found identical instances of graffiti."
Without going into the rights issue, how do they know that the "identical" grafitti in a notebook wasn't something the student copied off of the real grafitti because he thought it was cool. I mean, sure, it's gives them some probable cause to further question, but it's hardly damning evidence by itself.
Bill Ranck Blacksburg, Va.