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To: mysterio
And we wonder why most kids think newspaper stories should have to be approved by the government. We are teaching them to submit to control in every area of their lives. The Constitution is a foriegn idea to them. How can we ever expect them to value and uphold it?

There are plenty of places where kids in school do not have constitutional protection. (Lockers can be searched for example.) Would you have kids in school receive the full protection of the bill of rights? (I failed because I was not given due process the kid told his lawyer.) Same with employeers, locked desks can be opened and searched at the employers whim.

There has never been a time when school kids have been left alone and not monitored, its just that in the past the staff of the school organized the monitoring. (And don't think the school did not know who was out behind the backstop having an illicit smoke?) Crimes in school are often not solved, too many thieves, no one was looking? The objection in this case must be related to the technology? Or would most Freepers prefer to see the schools a little more chaotic?

And before I get flamed, I am opposed to letting the government track our comings and goings as much as anyone, but in school as a parent, I expect my kid is where he is supposed to be at all times, if he is not and the school catches him, this will be the least of his troubles. I guess I am also sorry that the human element has vanished as the teachers got more control over their assignments and the union got more control over the administrators.

20 posted on 02/10/2005 9:59:38 AM PST by KC_for_Freedom (Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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To: KC_for_Freedom
Would you have kids in school receive the full protection of the bill of rights?

Yes.

Or would most Freepers prefer to see the schools a little more chaotic?

I would prefer to see schools teaching kids why we threw off the yoke of the English in the first place, not Applied Orwell 101.

I guess I am also sorry that the human element has vanished as the teachers got more control over their assignments and the union got more control over the administrators.

The teachers should have control over the assignments. And throwing in the anti-union sentiment that is popular around here does nothing to refute the argument that we are not teaching kids to value freedom.
24 posted on 02/10/2005 10:41:58 AM PST by mysterio
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