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0 pointsConspiracyFact1y ago0 comments

>Meanwhile, the “right thing” isn’t always so obvious. The “violent and disruptive” student is also a child with a right to an education.

They may have a right to an education, but they need to be at an alternative school with teachers equipped to handle their behavior and classmates who are in similar situations. If they’re going to ruin their classes for their classmates, those classmates shouldn’t be innocent, well-behaved students.

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ty68531y ago

They have a right to education much like one has the right to bear arms or publish a book. You can have it, but your rights end where you demand someone else give it to you involuntarily, particularly with violence.

lazide1y ago

Notably, the courts say children don’t have those rights.

Also, essentially not ‘the right to an education’ but rather a legal mandate to be educated. The specifics of which vary by state.

smogcutter1y ago

Which is where an expulsion often leads, similar to how adults unable to function in society are channeled into SSDI, homelessness, or prison in some combination.

There are unlikely to be many caring and constructive adults there though, for reasons that should be obvious.

programjames1y ago

"Rights" only exist through the will of an omnipotent force, which is an undefined concept. I think it's better to respond to ill-defined arguments with simply that: "interpretation error, argument 'right' is ill-defined."

ConspiracyFactOP1y ago

Yes, I was 14 once, too.

Moral nihilism is obvious and not helpful. Everyone knows that our moral language is just a manner of speaking. We nevertheless engage with moral concepts because we reject moral nihilism at least from a pragmatic point of view. Pointing out that things like rights, justice, etc., have no real existence is not clever.

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