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?