A nice short Declaration of Independence and a Bill of Rights seemed to be enough. As the United States has grown it has managed to put so many rules together through a democratic process that we now have the highest ratio of citizens in jail to those out of jail than any country in the world. Through that democratic process we seem to be achieving the distinction of having more shootings in our democratically created schools, through many, many rules, than any country in the world. If this list can not tolerate differing viewpoints and philosophies the entire concept of the SV model is a true joke. This is because rules ritualize the equality of all views and all people.
Rules ritualize the inequality of all views and lift some far higher than others.
This gets me to one of the points I continually watch in the discussions of this list. As much talk as there is of the value of the freedom and respect given each individual student the discussions seem to focus on the rules of the model. I look forward to your response. God only needed to make 10.