Student Rights Quotes
Shanker was particularly honest and candid. Of the record, many politicians say the same think about their representing the interests of schoolchildren when the children are given the right to vote. Despite Shanker’s interest in representing his teachers, his policies and the UFT’s practices put much emphasis on student achievement as this is a goal of almost all teachers. The conflict with teachers are almost always with the politicians and school administrators who have their vested interests to protect and for whom the teachers make good scapegoats.
Tinker referred to the Supreme Court Case of Tinker v. Des Moines where the court ruled that school children had Constitutional rights as well as adults. It was not possible to have a blocking system that would keep “improper” or “indecent” internet sites from library or school computers. Even if it could, the appropriate material for a 17 year old to see and a 5 year old were very different. The blocking software never worked well. Computer sophisticated students would pride themselves by showing how they could evade the blocking software, and at the same time teen age girls would have health sites blocked because they showed how to do breast self-examinations.
Hypertrophy means: exaggerated or unnecessary growth or complexity
