Student Rights

Student rights are those rights , including but not limited to civil,
constitutional, contractual and consumer rights, which regulate
student rights and freedoms and allow students to make use of their
educational investment. These include such things as the right to free
speech and association, to due process, equality, autonomy, safety and
privacy, and accountability in contracts and advertising, which
regulate the treatment of students by teachers and administrators.
Students, here, include people attending schools , universities ,
colleges and other educational institutions. There is very little
scholarship about Student Rights throughout the world. Some countries,
like Romania, in the European Union, have comprehensive student bills
of rights, which are both clear and accessible to students. Most
countries, however, like the United States and Canada, have a number
of legislative documents and court precedents but do not have a
cohesive bill of rights which students can easily access. There has
been some criticism that student rights in North America are
progressing at a much slower rate than they are progressing in Europe
due, in part, to a lack of accessible information and due, in part, to
the student government movement which has replaced the student union
movement.