Teens? bold blogs spur warnings

[monk3y]

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Sidwell Friends School in the District recently forbade students from using their school e-mail addresses to register for access to Facebook, a widely used networking site for college and high school students. Before the holidays, Sidwell, Georgetown Day School in the District and the Madeira School in McLean wrote to parents to warn them about use of the site, and the Barrie School, in Silver Spring, recently asked a student to leave over the misuse of a blog.

Expelled
Some colleges have expelled teenagers for violating codes of conduct after discovering photos of underage students posing in front of kegs or writing about drinking binges, and employers often look up job candidates on the sites, said Parry Aftab, an Internet lawyer and the executive director of Wiredsafety.org.

 

[Sphexi]

It's hard to say.

On one hand, what a student does outside of school, the school really has no control over. I can see how they don't want students using school emails to register for certain things, same as businesses. It's their servers, their emails, they can decide what they're used for. I don't like schools telling students not to write about schools in blogs though, or not to write about teachers or other students, they can't really stop that.

As far as being expelled for violating codes of conduct, that I agree with. Schools have an image to protect, and for the most part a lot of schools have dry campuses, and most of these students I'm betting are NOT legal age for drinking. They're stupid enough to take pictures of themselves drinking, violating the law, and probably doing so on campus, and mentioning what school they go to, the school has every right to deal with them according to the code of conduct.

 

[JLGatsby]

Facebook makes extraterrestrials cry.

 

[Eli]

:roll:

(voted yes).

 

[ForumMaster]

well, i thought america had freedom of speech...what is it the school's business what happnes outside? that the police's work in terms of underage pr0n. it's a complicates issue. i votes
yes however.

 

[Leper Messiah]

this is why you don't post your escapades on the internet when they can be easily traced back to you.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
It's hard to say.

On one hand, what a student does outside of school, the school really has no control over. I can see how they don't want students using school emails to register for certain things, same as businesses. It's their servers, their emails, they can decide what they're used for. I don't like schools telling students not to write about schools in blogs though, or not to write about teachers or other students, they can't really stop that.

As far as being expelled for violating codes of conduct, that I agree with. Schools have an image to protect, and for the most part a lot of schools have dry campuses, and most of these students I'm betting are NOT legal age for drinking. They're stupid enough to take pictures of themselves drinking, violating the law, and probably doing so on campus, and mentioning what school they go to, the school has every right to deal with them according to the code of conduct.

It is stupid. Kids are going to be kids regardless of whether they post about it or not. To punish them for the same behavior they likely engaged in themselves is foolish.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
well, i thought america had freedom of speech...what is it the school's business what happnes outside? that the police's work in terms of underage pr0n. it's a complicates issue. i votes
yes however.

sure you have freedom of speech. but you do not have freedom form the consequence's of the speech.

 

[effowe]

I don't think the schools should be allowed to punish the kids for something that they say, their free speech should be protected. The kids, however, shouldn't be so damn stupid posting things that anyone and their mother can read. If you want to badmouth you should do it amongst your friends, not document it.