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For Their Own Good: Limit Student's Rights

Richard Arum
The Washington Post, December 29, 2003

This editorial by Common Good Education Advisory Board Member Richard Arum advocates strictly limiting due process protections extended to students solely to cases involving major penalties or students' First Amendment rights. Arum argues in all other cases, courts should cease interfering with teachers' and administrators' discretion in ordinary day-to-day school discipline and youth socialization.

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