Opinion ID: 766396
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Heading: Claims Against the Board of Education

Text: 102 We make explicit what we think is implicit in the foregoing discussion. Public schools have a relationship with their students that is markedly different from the relationship between most governmental agencies, including the CWA, and the children with whom they deal. Constitutional claims based on searches or seizures by public school officials relating to public school students therefore call for an analysis under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments that is different from that set forth in this opinion. See, e.g., Vernonia Sch. Dist. 47J v. Acton, 515 U.S. 646 (1995) (routine drug testing of public school student athletes does not violate the Fourth Amendment); T.L.O., 469 U.S. 325 (1985) (Fourth Amendment probable cause requirement inapplicable to warrantless search by public school assistant vice principal of student's purse). Inasmuch as the plaintiffs have not pursued claims against the Board of Education or public school officials, we have no occasion to discuss this issue in further detail or to apply that analysis.