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

["ElsaHaas" <ElsaHaas@si.rr.com>]

I get your point, but I think the terminology is a little off. My son, who
is eight, is a "United States citizen." He might be a second-class citizen,
but he is a citizen. What he isn't is an adult, so - as you say - he can't
exercise his civil rights directly (because he can't file a lawsuit on his
own, etc.). 

Elsa Haas

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Subject: Re: [arn-l] Spinning NCLB "accountability" as civil rights: neocon
girly manh...

"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.