Rights of Students in High School
"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one," Benjamin Franklin's quotation has as much power as it did 200 years ago. For some reason schools think that high school students desire to give up their personal freedoms that are outlined by the Constitution of the United States; however, students of this day and age are becoming more aware of their constitutional rights and are demanding them. High schools aim to suppress these rights for the sake of security reasons despite that they are our unalienable rights. Administrators expect students to, upon entering campus give up such freedoms as the freedom of speech, search and seizure, assembly, press, and religion. Therefore, rights can not be taken away from us for the sake of security. Freedom of speech is the most common freedom high school students are denied by the high school staff. "When speech is freely chosen by the speaker to persuade others it defines and expresses the ''self,'' promotes his liberty or the concept of ''self- realization,'' the belief that free speech enables the individual to develop his powers and abilities and to make and influence decisions r
In public high schools when students as so much as mention God in a religious manner they get told to be quite; yet, when they use God in profane language or to express an emotion, such as "Oh my God" it is accepted and not even given a second thought. When in public high school if a football player makes a touchdown he is forbidden to take a knee, make the sign of the cross and thank God for the ability to do so, but in the NFL this is accepted. Students are not even allowed to lead a prayer before a school day, rally, or a football game. The constitution "requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with . . . religious believers and non-believers; it does not require the state to be their adversary." (Everson v. Board of Educ., 330 U.S. 1, 18 (1947)) TINKER V. DES MOINES INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
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