Re: Spinning NCLB "accountability" as civil rights: neocon girly manh...

[Laurelathome@cs.com]

"civil rights" is a synonym for "citizen rights."  Citizens always have been 
and always will be people who qualify to vote. Children are the dependents of 
citizens; they aren't citizens.  They can have rights of person and property, 
but they can't have civil rights. Their parents can and do have civil rights 
in some nation, not always the US, and if there is something in the nation's 
principles and laws that imply a right to certain educational services financed 
by the taxpayers, well then, the parents can exert the right, but not the 
children.