Chinese American Students Fight for Their Rights‪.‬

Introduction Adolescents in suburban American schools are expected to follow class rules and school discipline policies, and little attention has been paid to their rights. Since young people in schools have little power, they usually cannot challenge school board members and principals. The power hierarchy (Parker, 2003) in schools determines that young people accept school rules and the knowledge that school requires them to learn. Young people's requests for their rights can, therefore, be regarded as "making trouble" (Soto, 1997; Spring, 2002). In addition, schools may deprive young people of their rights (Cooper & White, 2004) through language assimilation and repressive language policies (Sleeter, 2005; Spring, 2007).