I wonder what this country (the U.S.A.) is coming to sometimes. At school, students are regularly denied basic constitutional rights. We get punished if we speak our thoughts (if they do not conform to the school's ideals) and we are constantly ordered around. Yet in the U.S. Constitution the Freedoms of Speech, to express your ideas, and many others are CLEARLY granted to all U.S. citizens. So the question arises: are minors not citizens, or even people?