Education a Privilege
For most of history education was seen as a privilege. I feel that although in back years it was considered a privilege, but should have been a right also. Regardless of one’s background and economic, no one should have been denied the right to a full education. Every person is entitled to an education, it is their right. It was argued that education should be considered as a “substantial right” to which all citizens were entitled (Armstrong, 2009). Social circumstances has had an impact, many individuals questioned the wisdom of governmental officials during the course of fighting in Vietnam. Students have many rights that impact their influence on education, the freedom of expression that carries no governmental restrictions about what they can say. The freedom of expression cases in education usually focus on student speech, publications, dress, and grooming. They also have these rights, freedom of conscience, freedom from unreasonable search, the right to privacy and special rights for learners with disabilities. I feel that some of these rights should be revised to safeguard students from the many quite scary situations that arise in the schools today as students try to attain their education. Choice should play a very important role in public education. Families can choose to place their children in schools that best align with their own preferred choice. In Michigan most of the public schools are no longer. Parents are placing their children into charter schools, or private schools because they think that the education will be better, and the schools are often not overcrowded. I thought this way myself and place my grandchildren into private school. I now think differently about the education they are receiving, I feel like they should have been placed in a good public school and my money in the bank. The charter and public schools seem to offer comparative the same education as the public schools, except for the overcrowding, because the classes are...