<p>^Yes but they can force you to surrender that right. Teachers, at least at my school, can give referrals and suspensions for “whatever we dam well please” (exact quote from one of my teachers). If they say open your bag or your suspended you don’t really have a choice. I only bring this up because I’ve seen it happen.</p>
<p>^I know there are some restrictions, but I hate the limitless rights of teachers and administrators, especially in K-5. When I was in 5th grade, I actually wrote a redress of grievances over what I felt was unfair.</p>
<p>Actually, even seniors over the age of 18 still forfeit their rights. So it’s not just “schoolchildren.” It’s people who can be drafted to fight in wars as well.</p>
<p>ITT: Pseudo-intellectual teenagers trying to fight the system.</p>
<p>School children are not adults?
HAHA WHAT.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but if you don’t have the same ability for respect as a “real” adult (as though children magically change at eighteen) by the time you’re sixteen, then I really don’t know what to say. I mean, people used to have had two or three kids by that age.</p>
<p>I just… come on now.</p>
<p>A student must apply to only 7 schools, and only 2 of the ivy league schools. </p>
<p>This is a copy of the British model. This will increase the acceptance rate, because more students will be more practical in their college search and selection. Since less student will be applying to ivy league schools their acceptance rate will increase dramatically. Look at Oxbridge, two great schools, but you can only apply to one which is the reason for their higher acceptance rate. </p>
<p>Lower the drinking age to 18. </p>
<p>Lets be serious teenagers drink alcohol before their even 18, and since its illegal many more drink it to feel bad. And want what they can’t have.</p>
<p>I’d get rid of all trade barriers and tariffs and I’d legalize drugs.</p>
<p>I would eliminate the right of politicians to base their decisions on religious reasons: complete separation of church and state.</p>
<p>force everyone in the US to give me one dollar a day</p>
<p>Girls should have to wear short skirts and low tops for a school’s formal dress code. 
For obvious reasons.</p>
<p>^All girls? Because some girls should never wear that.That would be public indecency for some.</p>
<p>Universal health care.</p>
<p>legalize everything that has no business being banned:
gay marriage
weed
abortion
etc.</p>
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<p>I feel like you don’t tell the whole story. As I said earlier, teachers need reasonable suspicion to search a bag. If they did this without establishing reasonable suspicion, I would agree with you. But I think there’s something more to this than you know or are telling us. </p>
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<p>Are you really going to argue for a ten year old’s right to keep his or her backback private? In that case, anything they would have that’s likely to be taken probably isn’t their own doing, and even if it is they are still at an age where they either didn’t understand why they were wrong or can be corrected.</p>
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<p>This I agree with completely.</p>
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I’m not arguing for a 10 year old to keep their backpack private.</p>
<p>I’m talking about more basic rights.</p>
<p>I criticized a teacher to my friend PRIVATELY AFTER SCHOOL ENDED and I got called to the office.</p>
<p>Teachers search your locker for no reason and if you have graded papers hidden there you get your parents called and no recess for a week.</p>
<p>Teacher decisions, no matter how unfair, are not subject to review.</p>
<p>Teachers can give you any grades they want, so you could get an F if you get an A on everything.</p>
<p>This is elementary school. In middle school, I feel rights are adequately protected. But elementary school is a true prison.</p>
<p>80% of what they do in elementary school is pointless.</p>
<p>^Very true. My elementary teacher used to scare us by saying, if we misbehave in class, she will write it down and college will see it. So we won’t be able to go to college if we act bad in class. Load of crap, no one cares about 4th grade.</p>
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<p>And people used to be able to hold down a real job and manage a household at that age too. It’s not their fault us modern teens are pathetic.</p>
<p>As for a law… Why not make a law that everyone must answer truthfully when someone else asks them where they want to go for lunch.</p>
<p>^^Our fourth grade teacher told us that if we forge signatures for a test or a permission slip, then we’ll get charged with a felony and go to jail for 20 years. </p>
<p>I(and others) got caught forging and she said she let me off “super easy” by taking away our recess for several weeks and calling my parents.</p>