Student Bloggers
The Student Blogger's FAQ sheds light on your rights as a student to blog. Unnecessary you say?
Yet another article spotlighting the wacky ways schools are trying to deny students their first ammendment rights. I tell you, this is nuts.
In today's installment:
Laura Iacovacci, a 16-year-old junior at Paramus High School in Paramus, N.J., was suspended last month after teasing a classmate during school and implying he was gay. While at home on her suspension, she posted some comments on MySpace — including a post in which she commiserated with a friend who was paired with the boy for an activity in gym class. "Poor u … not fun not fun," Ms. Iacovacci wrote on the page. The comment has since been deleted.
Ms. Iacovacci said that when she returned to school, she was called to see the principal, Lina Gudelis, who showed her a fat stack of pages she had printed out from MySpace. Ms. Gudelis suspended Ms. Iacovacci for three more days. She wrote in a letter to Ms. Iacovacci's parents, "Please be advised that should Laura continue to participate in harassing behavior, either verbally or in writing, including websites, she will be suspended and may be transferred out of the classes she shares with the recipient of the Harassment."
What do you think? …as if I have to ask
~admin
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It good that school principles are eventually catching up with their students!It’s amazing that it’s taken them so long to discipline online offensive behaviour that can be more harmful than that offline, as it is easier for cowards to perpetrate and more much widespread.
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