[Osborn F Enready]

Caspian 88 said:
Of course, it was up to the kids to refuse in the first place. This is why we need more education about the rights of citizens and fewer projects where you bake bread in 7th grade Social Studies. You have to protect your own rights first - it's when you can't that you must be helped. I'd much prefer the children to have said "You can't do that" than have had to read about the incident.

I say:
I couldn't agree more. Too bad that the public system is a tool for mis-informing you of your rights, and since it would not further the means of the system to better educate kids to prosecute teachers, I doubt it would be added to the next years curriculum.

If parents truly gave a damn, they would be in the school once a month AT LEAST, to overview curriculum, talk to teachers, talk to students and see what their kids have to go through in order to learn the BASICS that are taught. Those same basic skills received through grade 12, can be taught by a concerned parent, more tailored to the child, and at a pace that suits the child specifically in much less time than 12 years, which allows a child to go to college early, and actually succeed in the modern job market with much more ease than a public schooled child.

Privatize the system, and make parental responsibility for their childs education job 1.