Students Amendment Rights Case Study

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Some older students in Buffalo are not eager towards the new policy with ID. Kenneth Hanes a fifteen-year-old ninth-grader said, “It’s too Big Brother for me. Something about the school wanting to know the exact place and time makes me feel like an animal.” Kenneth viewpoint was issued with an organization similar to A.C.L.U, an organization that stands for a students rights and liberties guaranteed for every individual by the Constitution and laws held by the U.S, and a non-profitable group that issues “digital rights”, Electronic Frontier Foundation. While the Constitution protects the rights of a student, school districts have the right to make rules, even those that can take away students’ Amendment Rights, to prevent disruptions towards

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