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Catholic School Principal To Students: Thou Shalt Not Blog

Students can be suspended for a lot of odd reasons these days — wearing "objectionable" T-shirts, cross-dressing for prom, planning elaborate senior pranks — but a principal at a Catholic high school in Sparta, New Jersey, has added another offense to the list: having a blog.......

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1512215/20051025/story.jhtml

— Gil Kaufman

see i'm on the both sides, i don't think schools have any right in saying what people do outside of the school grounds. YET i can see why alot of schools, and even companies now are telling there students/employees to not post on those sites. You can do alot of damages and in the cases for alot of companies , if someone posts something that could be damaging to the company they have a right to fire them if they have to.

But when it comes to schools, i can see why catholics schools would be banning them, there highly strick in the first place. But there intentions are good, but i just think its up to the parents at home to raise there kids, it shouldn't be up to the school to say what they can and can't do.

heh i bitch about work on my blog....

Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 313

kiya, some guy in england got fired because of that...he complained once about how slow his work was, and bamo...his ass was on the street :s

and i agree that it's up to the parents to protect their children if they wannaz be on myspace, i don't think the school should interfere. i would consider it against the freedom of speech too...catholic school or not.

I think everyone is being too personal.

catholic schools aren't always strict.

mine isn't.

that would suck though.

man my a/v class would be 10x more boring if it weren't for myspace and lj.

IMO thats retarded. I don't think schools should control parts of your life that don't have to do with school. Now I could see if they were doing there blogs during school or something, but otherwise, that's retarded lol

Catholic schools here don't make any sense...because we still have Muslim, Hindus & Buddhists within school walls - but thats good for multiracial purposes

We nvr got any of this anti-blog warfare at my Catholic Convent School though..
maybe a little anti-don'twearperfumetoschool, but thats it.

Banned. Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 443

We're a ridiculous species, we really are. (:

Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 1652 Location: Ohio

I didn't see this topic until now, and I agree that it should be the parents not the school to decide if kids can do this. On the other hand, the school is doing a service to parents by just making them aware of myspace. I'm sure most parents have no idea their kids are on there. Just having joined myspace myself, I was pretty shocked over the weekend to see what my daughter's 13-year old friends have put on their myspace. One girl had her full name, hometown, and parents names (they were answers to a survey that she posted there). That really scared me because it would be so easy for a predator to come right to her house. Kids that age just don't have the judgement to know that they shouldn't reveal so much information and predators are going to be on there looking for kids like that.

*nods*

My kid brother was pestering me about helping him sign up for Myspace & Friendster but he's only 11. Half the time on Friendster I get sexually harrassed by messages & obscene pictures, its just not the kind of things you want young kids to see or DO.

But I think what the school should have done was go to the parents and discuss their concerns with them, & then let the parents make decisions from there, whether to disallow their children to blog on Myspace, or whether to caution them about what could/could not happen on such networks. It mightn't have reached out to the whole student body, but it would have sufficed as a step towards solving problems like this.

Coming out & banning something as big as online journals straight up, is only going to make the students feel demoralised & they'll only rebel - especially because they're teens.

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11/12/05

Subject: STOOPID TEACHERZ!!

OMG U GUYZ MY TEACHER TODAY WUZ THE DUMBEST EV-R. SHE LIKE MADE US DO THESE PROBLEMZ WITH FRACTIONZ N SHIT AN I DONT DO THAT SHE SHULD KNOW BY NOWZ. OH MAYYN I HATE THAT SCHOOL. OMMGGG BUT TRACIE AND I WENT TO HOT TOPIC AND FOUND DIS CUTE SHIRT OMG I JUST HAD TO HAVE IT AND IT LOOKZ HAWT. GOTTA GO TRACIE IS HERE WERE GONNA GO PARTY N GET CRUNK LOL!!!! LATER PEEPZ

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I can see why this is immediate grounds for punishment.

Banned. Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 443

I'd report that post ... but I can't find that option.

*gnaws*