In Re Patrick Y.

The majority holds that a knife and a pager, recovered as the result of a search of the petitioner’s school locker,1 were properly admitted into evidence during the petitioner’s delinquency proceedings. When the search occurred, the petitioner was an eighth grade student at the Mark Twain School in Montgomery County and, as such, subject to that school’s “Policies Regarding Student Behavior,” a copy of which he and his parent had received and signed for. In addition to stating the school’s commitment “to maintain[ing] a safe environment for students and staff,” the policy this document…