Student's Rights

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an "I love Cheryl Wilhoyte" love-fest,
let's take a look at what these "legitimate rules" are, particularly as they
apply to freedom of speech, expression, and something they like to call
"material disruption of the educational environment."
The first item on the list is literature, specifically a student's right
to post it. It reads "Students shall have the right to post any literature of a
non-commercial nature without prior censorship or approval by the Administration
or School Board in any designated posting area, provided, however, the
designated representative shall be accorded the right to remove posted material
s/he considers obscene, libelous or will cause material disruption to the
educational environment." Let's stop and think a bit. I have the right to post
whatever I want so long as my Administrators agree with it? Whose rights are we
really talking about here? Well, I began to think and it occurred to me that
maybe my Administrators and School Board ...

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Perhaps I'm just reading this wrong, but it seems to me
that this bill of rights says that (paraphrased) "students can do what their
administrators deem appropriate." Personally, I'm insulted that the School
Board and our Administrators, the very people that are supposed to be helping us
become intelligent, free-thinking adults, really give themselves the right to
make me change my clothes or remove symbols of my beliefs because it may rub
someone the wrong way.
It's getting to the point where the WASPS downtown who have a very small
idea what the students are really thinking make decisions for us on basic
fundamental things, like our dress and expression of beliefs. Isn't the ...

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