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Many government school districts believe what you child does at 3:30 on a Saturday on a home computer is the business of the government, NOT the parents.
"School administrators across the nation are trying to rein in cyber-bullying, and some judges have been ruling against the crackdowns. The judges are right.
We feel for the Beverly Hills eighth-grader who complained that she had been described as "spoiled," a "brat" and a "slut" in a YouTube video posted by a classmate. But sympathetic school officials went too far in suspending the girl who produced the video. Punishing the student for behavior outside the school was illegal, wrote U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, "without any evidence that such speech caused a substantial disruption of the school's activities."
Time for schools to get back to education, not involved in what they eat, how they live or what they do at home or off the government school campus. time for parents to tell the government schools to mind their own business--which should be education.
What do you think--should a Principal be able to punish your child for what they wrote on a computer on a Saturday afternoon? If it is not illegal, then why does the government, in this case schools, care?
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"School administrators across the nation are trying to rein in cyber-bullying, and some judges have been ruling against the crackdowns. The judges are right.
We feel for the Beverly Hills eighth-grader who complained that she had been described as "spoiled," a "brat" and a "slut" in a YouTube video posted by a classmate. But sympathetic school officials went too far in suspending the girl who produced the video. Punishing the student for behavior outside the school was illegal, wrote U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, "without any evidence that such speech caused a substantial disruption of the school's activities."
Time for schools to get back to education, not involved in what they eat, how they live or what they do at home or off the government school campus. time for parents to tell the government schools to mind their own business--which should be education.
What do you think--should a Principal be able to punish your child for what they wrote on a computer on a Saturday afternoon? If it is not illegal, then why does the government, in this case schools, care?
More...