Rights and responsibilities

During the "rights and responsibilities" discussion yesterday in the 1st-year class, a teacher stated rather firmly something like "We have the right to know what we are going to be taught and why."  I tensed up... it seemed like a mindset in which there is almost a contractual obligation that the instructors will convey certain content, no matter what.  She said something like, "Just like we have to do for our students" - write the objective on the board, stuff like that.  Eek.  Hunter, who was the scribe, just normally wrote it on the board like he was for everything else.  Then, when they were done naming rights and responsibilities, Hunter said he thought they had a right that they had not  identified for themselves:  The right to influence what they were taught.  They agreed.  I thought this was brilliant:  it did not diminish what the teacher had said in any way, yet it is the seed of the responsive teaching that I thought was at risk of being de-legitimized.