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Parent tells board Nicolette Middle School 'health and safety' check included forced bra check
Summary
A Nicolette Middle School parent told the Banning Unified board that school staff required her 13-year-old daughter to pull out and shake her bra during what staff called a "health and safety check," and urged the district to change the practice and notify parents.
Casey Sunderland, a parent of an eighth grader at Nicolette Middle School, told the Banning Unified School District Board of Trustees on Feb. 6 that school staff subjected her 13-year-old daughter to a search she described as a strip search during a health-and-safety check.
Sunderland said her daughter was removed from class and taken to Vice Principal Ms. Williamson's office, where, she said, staff directed the girl to remove her socks and shoes, "grab her bra from over her shirt, pull it away from her breasts, and to lean over and shake" twice as part of a search for vapes. "They made…
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