After being accused of sexually harassing a student, a high school math teacher in New York was suspended with pay pending an impartial hearing. The district allowed the teacher to return to his classroom to collect his personal effects, which he had kept in boxes, desk drawers, and three filing cabinets, one of which was locked. He did not succeed in removing all of his belongings and later claimed that the district did not return all of them to him. The teacher filed suit in federal court, claiming that the district and its administrators had violated his Fourth Amendment rights in the search and seizure of his personal items in the classroom. An examination of this case finds that the Fourth Amendment offers only limited privacy protection to what many educators mistakenly consider their own workspace.