During the past months at CAL, studying in the Multicultural Urban Secondary Education program, I have been trying to understand the relationship between civil/human rights and property rights in regards to access to education in the U.S. Most agree that everyone should have a quality education as a fundamental right, regardless of citizenship status, but few agree on what type of right this really is: Is it a a civil right or a property right?
I’d think that it is a natural or human right but, as a state funded enterprise, it is, at the very least, a civil right! Fifty-four years after Brown v. Board of Ed, and on Super Tuesday Feb 5th 2008, it is clear that the right for all students to receive the same quality education as those most likely to afford it, school must be as fundamental as the right to vote, right to privacy and right express yourself in whatever fashion, within reason, one chooses!
By: edwin on February 16, 2008
at 11:55 pm