In a school, there's a principle. He's in charge. There are vice principles. They're in charge. Students have no rights:
The freedom of speech
The freedom to elect who they wish to lead them
Sometimes even the freedom to chose what they wear!
Granted, sometimes these rules have purposes:
Kids might elect someone who will let them run wild,
Kids could hide weapons under their shirts
What I don't understand is why kids have absolutely no power? The most experience they'll get of a real democratic world is electing student council members which, let's face it, basically get to help decorate for dances and that's about the most power they get.
Couldn't kids get to have a say in who runs the school? If they elect the wrong leader, it will teach them about a real democratic life, not the perfect world where everything's perfect and if you make a mistake you can try again the next day.
Schools are supposed to teach students and get them ready for the real world. If they are, then why aren't they letting their students make real world decisions? Why are they constricting their social needs by not letting them talk during lunch time because they were getting "to loud"? If a student gets to loud, why can't the monitor ask them to quiet down instead of thrusting them into complete silence?
Students in middle schools and high schools are being held back artistically as well. Some can't choose what they wish to wear because they must wear a uniform. Others are constricted by a dress code, making them tuck in their shirts, no holy pants, exc. I don't understand why they a person at the front of the school couldn't just check for reasonability; if a boy's shirt looked long enough to hide a weapon, ask them to tuck it in, but if the shirt only went an inch past the line of the pants and the shirt he was wearing was fairly tight, why make him tuck it in. There's virtually no chance a a hidden weapon. Besides, there are much better ways to hide a weapon then that! If the student has an instrument case of any kind and one day they want to take a weapon to school, out goes the instrument, in goes the weapon.
I my self would feel much safer if instrument cases were checked instead of having to tuck my shirt in.
The only change (or what almost was change) I can ever remember happening in my school was when two girls got a petition together against the "no holes in pants" rule. They got 100 signatures and they only needed something like 88. The only reason it didn't get passed was because the two girls were too scared of the principle they had to turn it into to turn it in!
Are schools dictatorships?
Think about it...
