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Students’ Rights Inquiry (Educator Materials)

Essential Question: How does a democracy address racial, gender, and socioeconomic inequalities?

  • Compelling Question: Do schools prepare students to practice their rights or to surrender them?

Supporting Questions:

  • SQ1: How have students used their voices and actions in the past to stand up for their rights and create change in their schools or communities?
  • SQ 2: When have students successfully challenged their schools in court, and what rights did they help secure for others?
  • SQ 3: When have students challenged their schools in court but lost, and what does that reveal about the limits of student rights?
  • SQ 4: Where should the line be drawn between school authority and student rights? Who should decide?