Rights of High School Students:

Issue 

  • 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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