ISSUES Rights of High School Students:
14 February 1996
- No government funding to private schools
- Increase funding to public schools
- Write women back into textbooks
- End discrimination against gay and lesbian students
- End discrimination against pregnant students
- End corporal punishment in all schools
- End all humiliating forms of punishment
- No rules regarding what we wear, including jewellery, hair styles, clothes and make-up
- Freedom of political organisation on school
- Student and staff control of curriculum and assessment
[Reprinted from Student Independent, 1995]
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