Worksheet 39

Limiting human rights

Task
 Imagine you are Head Teacher.
 Review the scenarios below.
 Your job is to decide whether the students’ human rights should be limited or not and why?

Scenario Students’ human rights... Should the students’ human rights Why?
be limited?
School suspects that a student Right to respect for private and family
has a knife in their bag. life

A Muslim student asks the Head Right to express your views and
Teacher if they can hold a opinions
debate about Islamic
Fundamentalism.

Students hold a demonstration Right to get together with other

on school grounds against people in a peaceful way
tuition fees but the protest turns
violent.

(Note, these are an easy to read version of the rights from the Equality and Human Rights Commission)