A HANDBOOK ON STUDENT RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CALIFORNIA LAW
Handbook Preface
According
to the National Education Association, there are two kinds of educational
rights for students. As citizens in their society, they have a right to fair
treatment in their schools. As clients of a public institution, they have the
right to influence the services their institution provides for them.
Students,
therefore, have the right to substantial influence over their educational
programs including the goals they pursue, the topics they study, the learning
materials and learning processes they use and the criteria for evaluating their
accomplishments.
In
Brown vs. The Board of Education, 1954, the United States Supreme Court said
that today education is perhaps the most important function of the states and
local governments. It is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to
succeed in life if he/she is denied the opportunity of an education. Since all
states have, in fact, undertaken to provide a public education system,
education must be considered a right in that it may not be arbitrarily denied
to anyone.
It
is with these values that I urge you to consider this Handbook. Boyer
P. August, Ed. D.
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the
lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple
of hope and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and
caring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls
of oppression.” Robert F. Kennedy
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