Why Is It Important To Protect The Bill Of Rights Of Students?
Ashley Taintor
Professor Picchierri
English 151-28
30 September 2014
Freedom
There are limits as to what is protected in the Bill of Rights and what is not. You need to realize when you cross that line of what is not protected. Due to the fact that students are protected by our Bill of Rights they have the freedom to wear what they want, say what they want, and put what they want on the Internet. With this in mind students have the right to wear what they want but only to a certain point. If what a student has on is offending in anyway, and majority of the people feel offended by what they have on, by our own rights they would have to change what they have on. As said in “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus” a way to approach students with this is to “Seek to educate and persuade, rather than resort to ridicule or intimidation, recognizing that only persuasion is likely to produce a lasting, beneficial effect” (Derek Bok 71). If the schools faculty wants to make an effect on the students realizing what is right and wrong students need to be reprimanded not yelled at for it, or they will keep doing it. …show more content…
“Universities have been struggling with the problem of trying to reconcile the rights of free speech with the desire to avoid racial tension” (Bok 70). It is hard to tell the difference between free speech and issues other people may have with how you choose to use your freedom of speech. For that reason some universities “… enacted codes to protect their communities from forms of speech that are deemed to be insensitive to the feelings of other groups,” (Bok 69). That would make the restrictions a lot more clearly on how to define the line between the
Professor Picchierri
English 151-28
30 September 2014
Freedom
There are limits as to what is protected in the Bill of Rights and what is not. You need to realize when you cross that line of what is not protected. Due to the fact that students are protected by our Bill of Rights they have the freedom to wear what they want, say what they want, and put what they want on the Internet. With this in mind students have the right to wear what they want but only to a certain point. If what a student has on is offending in anyway, and majority of the people feel offended by what they have on, by our own rights they would have to change what they have on. As said in “Protecting Freedom of Expression on the Campus” a way to approach students with this is to “Seek to educate and persuade, rather than resort to ridicule or intimidation, recognizing that only persuasion is likely to produce a lasting, beneficial effect” (Derek Bok 71). If the schools faculty wants to make an effect on the students realizing what is right and wrong students need to be reprimanded not yelled at for it, or they will keep doing it. …show more content…
“Universities have been struggling with the problem of trying to reconcile the rights of free speech with the desire to avoid racial tension” (Bok 70). It is hard to tell the difference between free speech and issues other people may have with how you choose to use your freedom of speech. For that reason some universities “… enacted codes to protect their communities from forms of speech that are deemed to be insensitive to the feelings of other groups,” (Bok 69). That would make the restrictions a lot more clearly on how to define the line between the