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====Obligation to honor students rights====
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[[Sudbury model|Sudbury-model]] democratic schools claim that popularly based authority can maintain order more effectively than dictatorial authority for governments and schools alike. They also claim that in these schools the preservation of public order is easier and more efficient than anywhere else. Primarily because rules and regulations are made by the community as a whole, thence the school atmosphere is one of persuasion and negotiation, rather than confrontation since there is no one to confront. Sudbury model democratic schools' proponents argue that a school that has good, clear laws, fairly and democratically passed by the entire school community, and a good judicial system for enforcing these laws, is a school in which community discipline prevails, and in which an increasingly sophisticated concept of law and order develops, against other schools today, where rules are arbitrary, authority is absolute, punishment is capricious, and [[due process of law]] is unknown.<ref>The Crisis in American Education&nbsp;— An Analysis and a Proposal, [http://www.sudval.com/05_onepersononevote.html#02 The Sudbury Valley School] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511180710/http://www.sudval.com/05_onepersononevote.html |date=11 May 2011 }} (1970), [https://books.google.com/books?id=MAqxzEss8k4C&pg=PA49&dq=The+Crisis+in+American+Education+%E2%80%94+An+Analysis+and+a+Proposal,+The+Sudbury+Valley+School+(1970),+Law+and+Order:+Foundations+of+Discipline ''Law and Order: Foundations of Discipline''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118063824/https://books.google.com/books?id=MAqxzEss8k4C&pg=PA49&dq=The+Crisis+in+American+Education+%E2%80%94+An+Analysis+and+a+Proposal,+The+Sudbury+Valley+School+(1970),+Law+and+Order:+Foundations+of+Discipline |date=18 January 2017 }} (pg. 49-55). Retrieved 15 November 2009.</ref><ref>Greenberg, D. (1987) The Sudbury Valley School Experience [http://www.sudval.com/05_underlyingideas.html#09 "Back to Basics - Political basics."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511175026/http://www.sudval.com/05_underlyingideas.html |date=11 May 2011 }} {{quote|Knowing all this, we would expect; nay, insist (one would think) that the schools, in training their students to contribute productively to the political stability and growth of America, would be democratic and non-autocratic; be governed by clear rules and due process; be guardians of individual rights of students. A student growing up in schools having these features would be ready to move right into society at large. I think it is safe to say that the individual liberties so cherished by our ancestors and by each succeeding generation will never be really secure until our youth, throughout the crucial formative years of their minds and spirits, are nurtured in a school environment that embodies these basic American truths.}} Retrieved 4 January 2010.</ref>