Today's (Friday, June 4) Philadelphia Inquirer includes an article regarding whether schools can punish two students in two different schools in western PA for using "home computers and lewd vocabularies . . . ridiculing school principals on the Internet."
Read more: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_region/20100604_U_S__appeals_court_considering_teens__Web_cases.html#ixzz0ptakleHz
The issue here is whether the schools can suspend the students for this behavior. It is not an issue of wrongdoing on the part of the two students. Again, we see students posting things on social networking sites believing that the information is private. This reinforces what we've been discussing all along regarding the need to educate students about what they are really doing when they post on these sites.
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I wonder if it would have been as big of a deal if the students would have written/drawn this in a hard copy journal and passed it around school.....
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that it's an Internet issue...It's just respect in general. Students need to be taught to respect authority!