This Essay argues against the pursuit of students’ rights, which function mainly as a smokescreen behind which adults have advanced their own partisan agendas in our culture wars. Independent rights for students are both theoretically untenable and politically damaging to our liberal democracy.

 

中文翻译：

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反对儿童腹语：学生权利如何掩盖成人文化战争

本文反对追求学生的权利，因为学生权利主要充当烟幕弹，成年人在我们的文化战争中推进了他们自己的党派议程。学生的独立权利在理论上是站不住脚的，而且在政治上对我们的自由民主制度有害。