Do students have rights at school?

2013-02-18 8:43 pm
I'm 15 years old and go to a public high school. I am not a trouble-maker or anything, I am just wondering why it seems as if students have almost no rights at school. Teachers can tell us not to talk, what to do, where to go, they can issue after and before school punishments just for things like talking which is suppose to be a right we have, isn't it? They boss you around and tell you what you can and can't do for things like going to the bathroom, standing up, having your head down, and talking. I'm not trying to be a pain in the ***, I just want to know why it we are punished for things like that, and what gives them the right to tell us not to do those things, expecially with the little things like when we are doing a worksheet and I get up to go to the restroom the teacher tells me to sit down and if I don't do what they say I can get a detention and have to come after or before school. Another example is that I moved schools and the transcripts didnt count one of the classes I took, so I have to retake it. And the teacher just talks the whole period and I sit in the back and I don't talk to anyone or disrupt the class at all, but one day I had my head down because I already knew what he was teaching, and he yelled at me and sent me to the dean for "disrupting" the class because the teacher was "distracted" that I wasn't paying attention to his lesson and he had to stop the lesson to yell at me. Also one time I took a long crap and I was in the bathroom for 10 minutes and the teacher gave me a detention. I am just curious as to why they are allowed to do this, I am not disrupting other students from getting an education. What can I do to stop this? I know we can't have all the students rebelling and doing whatever they want, but I think some teachers abuse their powers and punish and boss around where they shouldn't be allowed to. Thank you.

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2013-02-18 9:02 pm
✔ 最佳答案
High school students to have rights. However, the courts of the US do grant school administrators some latitude to restrict rights of the students. I believe the standard used for this is whether speech or an activity causes "substantial disruption of the school's educational mission."

There are several cases that have made it to the Supreme Court that address student's rights. Probably the most common one pertaining to free speech is Tinker vs. Des Moines (this is the case you might be aware of where the students wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War). There have been subsequent cases where free speech has been refined a bit.

Is taking a 10 minute dump considered a substantial disruption? I could argue it either way. The same with putting your head down during class.

There probably isn't much you can do to change things. Most of your concerns have likely been addressed by the students before you.
2013-02-19 4:49 am
Look up "in loco parentis"

They have the same rights to command as your parents do.

They are trying to teach 100's of individuals. Minimum disruption is the only way.
2013-02-19 4:55 am
THE ANSWER is in the word...
Authority. Law has authority to say that you HAVE TO GO to school. And the school has authority to define HOW YOU AND OTHERS conduct yourself at school.

If you look up the word, it may help. And..by the way...when you get out in the real world, you can't just do what you want, there, either. It may seem like it, but you can't.

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