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This on top of the nonexistence of student rights in grade schools. Why do we think all students are murderers and race/sex/religionists? This issue also bears
by dunstad 17y ago
This on top of the nonexistence of student rights in grade schools. Why do we think all students are murderers and race/sex/religionists?
This issue also bears similarity to airport security after 9/11. America's becoming an expert on inconveniencing the many based on the actions of a few.
- pyre 17y ago> This on top of the nonexistence of student rights in grade schools. I think this is mostly because in grade schools students aren't legally considered adults. If I was being really cynical, I could say that the only reason there aren't 'student rights' in grade schools is because grade-schoolers don't vote.
- Perceval 17y agoMinors don't necessarily have the full array of rights that people of majority age have. Schools for a very long time operated in loco parentis -- essentially possessing the same ability to restrict a minor's actions as a parent would have. The doctrine of in loco parentis has been mostly dismantled since the 1960s, but not wholly.
- kinghajj 17y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker_v._Des_Moines Students in public schools have the right to free speech, so long as it doesn't interfere with the operations of the school.
- dgordon 17y agoNo they don't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelwood_v._Kuhlmeier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazelwood_v._Kuhlmeier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick I consider these decisions disgusting, wrong, and anathema to the Constitution, but there you are.