Rights of High School Students:

Wednesday, February 14, 1996 - 11:00

  • 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]

From GLW issue 219