Lets say a student made a parody Myspace page of a teacher or principal, should the school be able to punish a kid for that? (AP) PHILADELPHIA - Federal appellate judges wrestling with whether schools can discipline students for Internet speech posted offsite reached different rulings Thursday in two Pennsylvania cases. One 3rd U.S. Circuit Court panel upheld the suspension of a Schuylkill County eighth-grader who posted sexually explicit material along with her principal’s photograph on a fake MySpace page. However, a different three-judge panel said that school officials in Mercer County cannot reach into a family’s home and police the Internet. That case also involves a MySpace parody of a principal created by a student at home. And, in dissent, a judge in the first case said his colleagues were broadening the school’s authority and improperly censoring students. "I believe that this holding vests school officials with dangerously overbroad censorship discretion," Judge Michael Chagares wrote in the case, which upheld the March 2007 suspension of a Blue Mountain Middle School student. "Neither the Supreme Court nor this Court has ever allowed schools to punish students for off-campus speech that is not school sponsored and that caused no substantial disruption at school," Chagares wrote. School boards, free-speech advocates and others had been awaiting the rulings for clarity on how far schools can go to control both online speech and offsite behavior. http://kstp.com/news/stories/S958838.shtml?cat=162
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1
No, they shouldn't. But would you agree that private schools also should not be able to regulate off-campus behavior?
2
I think the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court will be overturned, clearly the Supreme Court has already ruled on this in similar cases.
3
No, No school should be able to. Someone else brought up private schools. I don't know what that has to do with anything. Private schools can refuse to admit some students.
4
Since the video was made of a teacher or principal - yes, they should be able to punish them for that.
5
If not that , what else?
6
No sir that is the parents job
