Every day we hear about the suffering of people in places like Myanmar and Darfur. Almost all the time the issue of human rights come up. If human rights are so elementary, so basic, then why haven’t we straightened it out after all these years?
To understand that, we must look at the most elementary place in all of our lives.
School.
For twelve years of our lives, (and often times more than that) we sit in classrooms and listen to instructors. Debates fuel over our rights in school, the rights of the instructors, and the rights of what gets shown in classroom- basically, everything. Each side argues relentlessly on every issue, from cafeteria foods up to school calendars.
