Youth Rights
The rights of students and juveniles are exceptionally vulnerable to abuses by government. When students are unaware of their basic rights, it can be difficult--if not impossible--for students and parents to protect those rights. The following pages are meant to help you learn more about your rights as a young person, student or parent. Know them, assert them, protect them.
Information and resources for students in public Mississippi schools.
The ACLU Racial Justice Project, along with the Mississippi affiliate have developed two statewide reports on school to prison pipeline issues that have garnered national attention. A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment and Children in U.S. Public Schools exposed the extreme human rights violations caused by the paddling of children in public schools in Mississippi and Texas. Missing the Mark: Alternative Schools in the State of Mississippi is the first report to classify alternative schools as 'dumping grounds' for troubled students and since its February release, has already led to some reform efforts.