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Citizen Students: Rights In Schools

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A lot of kids first learn about the law in school. And if they study hard enough, they’ll learn that as students they’re often stripped of their Constitutional rights. University of Chicago law professor Justin Driver joins us to talk about how corporal punishment, random drug testing and backpack searches can be administered at schools. His new book is called “The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind” (Pantheon).