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
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Approximate Word count = 1747
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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