Reply #79: This isn't surprising, as someone who just graduated from HS

[Spacejet]

I can tell you the "students have no rights what so ever" mantra has sunk in.

School now is basically an instrument of the state and corporations to prepare people for there life of corporate servitude. In fact, this WAS the mission statement of my grade schools. Not in those words, of course, but same thing worded nicer. The point is NOT to learn how government works. NOT to learn anything BUT what would be helpful for a corporation.

Students have next to no constitutional rights in school, and they are taught that. So why would they think they have rights when they leave when they've been taught them don't?

Ironically, a republican told me it best - we don't have schools anymore, we have trade schools. And that goes for everything from pre-k to college.