Sir Galahad....you obviously are missing the point in all of this, so let me try to help you one last time.
If we are to believe that "teachers" are wrong for sharing their views about the war with their students....we must also accept that it is wrong for the millitary to call students at their residence to get them to join the war.
The students apparently made it clear to the millitary people calling that they are not interested...thus, the repeated phone calls equates to harassment. When someone says no...leave me alone...it means just that and in the "real world" if they are subjected to continued calls....it becomes telephone harassment, which is a criminal offense.
Under your rationalization, you presuppose that because a kid is in public school, they are not entitled to "privacy" like a kid who is in a private school is entited to receive. Hence, if they do not like it, they can either drop out of school, attend a private school or just deal with the harassment. Obviously the right of privacy is a value you believe should be only for the privileged few.
Also under your rationalization, you assert that a kid should learn to accept harassment because in his life he will have to learn to accept orders from his employer. Living a responsible life (apart of which includes working and being a team player) has nothing to do with being a kid in school and receiving harassing telephone calls from millitary..the key word here is "harassment" and maybe herein lies your misuderstanding. You see, these kids did not sign up to join and then backed out...they did not willingly give their phone number and say...call me later and we'll talk. These kids...in trying to be responsible...are trying to go to school and just be kids.
And you predicate that because a person must fill out tax info to pay the gov't....these kids have no right to be free of harassment and safe in their right of privacy. With each entry you write, it is clear that you advance these kids in age more and more from what they truly are.....to somehow give your rationalizations logic. Though it is obvious that you simply just do not understand. So, I leave you to your logic and to your rationalizations and should you have kids, then I hope you will march them down to the nearest recruiters office tomorrow and force your kid to sign on the dotted line or give your phone number to the recruiters and tell them to pressure and harass your kid into joining the millitary. And if you truly believe that a kid's personal info is public record merely because s/he attends a public shcool....I doubt very much you'd say the same if some freak got a hold of his personal info under the premise that it was "public records" and started stalking your kid. You would most complain and to proclaim that your child has a right of privacy. Because after all....it is your child involved and not "the other guys" so the shoe is always different when on the other foot.
If we are to believe that "teachers" are wrong for sharing their views about the war with their students....we must also accept that it is wrong for the millitary to call students at their residence to get them to join the war.
The students apparently made it clear to the millitary people calling that they are not interested...thus, the repeated phone calls equates to harassment. When someone says no...leave me alone...it means just that and in the "real world" if they are subjected to continued calls....it becomes telephone harassment, which is a criminal offense.
Under your rationalization, you presuppose that because a kid is in public school, they are not entitled to "privacy" like a kid who is in a private school is entited to receive. Hence, if they do not like it, they can either drop out of school, attend a private school or just deal with the harassment. Obviously the right of privacy is a value you believe should be only for the privileged few.
Also under your rationalization, you assert that a kid should learn to accept harassment because in his life he will have to learn to accept orders from his employer. Living a responsible life (apart of which includes working and being a team player) has nothing to do with being a kid in school and receiving harassing telephone calls from millitary..the key word here is "harassment" and maybe herein lies your misuderstanding. You see, these kids did not sign up to join and then backed out...they did not willingly give their phone number and say...call me later and we'll talk. These kids...in trying to be responsible...are trying to go to school and just be kids.
And you predicate that because a person must fill out tax info to pay the gov't....these kids have no right to be free of harassment and safe in their right of privacy. With each entry you write, it is clear that you advance these kids in age more and more from what they truly are.....to somehow give your rationalizations logic. Though it is obvious that you simply just do not understand. So, I leave you to your logic and to your rationalizations and should you have kids, then I hope you will march them down to the nearest recruiters office tomorrow and force your kid to sign on the dotted line or give your phone number to the recruiters and tell them to pressure and harass your kid into joining the millitary. And if you truly believe that a kid's personal info is public record merely because s/he attends a public shcool....I doubt very much you'd say the same if some freak got a hold of his personal info under the premise that it was "public records" and started stalking your kid. You would most complain and to proclaim that your child has a right of privacy. Because after all....it is your child involved and not "the other guys" so the shoe is always different when on the other foot.