The rights library
Interactive lessons in plain language, free and bilingual. Each one takes about ten to fifteen minutes and ends with a printable pocket card. Start anywhere; every lesson stands on its own.
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- Your rights at schoolSchool rules are real, but so are your rights. Learn what stays with you when you walk through the school doors.
- Speaking up and free expressionWhat the First Amendment protects when you speak, write, post, and wear your views, and where schools can draw lines.
- Student searches and personal privacyWhen school officials can search your backpack, locker, or phone, and what you can calmly say while it happens.
- Bullying, discrimination, and harassmentThe difference between being treated badly and being treated illegally, and the steps that make adults act.
- Interactions with police and school securityYour core rights when questioned or stopped, and how to use them calmly and safely.
- Rights at work for teenagersHour limits, safety rules, fair pay, and what to do when a job asks for more than the law allows.
- Immigration rights and family preparednessConstitutional rights belong to everyone here, whatever their status. Learn them, and learn how families plan ahead calmly.
- Digital privacy and social media safetyWho can see your data, what schools and apps can do with it, and habits that keep your digital life yours.
- Peaceful protest and civic participationHow assembly, petition, and protest work for young people, on the sidewalk, at school, and online.
- Finding help: trusted adults and legal supportKnowing your rights is step one. Knowing exactly who to call, and what's free, is the step that makes rights real.
- Driving, cars, and traffic stopsFor a lot of people the first real conversation with police happens through a car window. This is how that conversation usually works.
- Asking for what you need at schoolAccommodations, evaluations, and the difference between a favour that gets forgotten and a plan the whole school has to follow.