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LoochTheMan
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O.P. Local High School Suspensions: Your Opinion?
There is a local High School near me in Toronto where 11-19 (not sure) students were suspended for commenting on a group created at Facebook.com about their principal. As a result, the police were contacted and the students were suspended for internet bullying. Do you think schools have the right to suspend kids due to comments or posts made on the internet. The comments were not made on school computers and had no affiliation to the school (other than the principal being commented on). An article can be found here, with the official reported story.
What do you think?
Edit: Changed group to newspaper article.
This post was edited on 02-13-2007 at 09:17 PM by LoochTheMan.
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RE: Local High School Suspensions: Your Opinion?
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Originally posted by LoochTheMan
There is a local High School near me in Toronto where 11-19 (not sure) students were suspended for commenting on a group created at Facebook.com about their principal. As a result, the police were contacted and the students were suspended for internet bullying. Do you think schools have the right to suspend kids due to comments or posts made on the internet. The comments were not made on school computers and had no affiliation to the school (other than the principal being commented on). The group can be found here, with posted content from local newspapers.
What do you think?
Definetly not, what you do as a student outside school, isn't in general the school's business.
Of course, they can charge them for being mean (even i could that but), it isn't really a need to do so. |
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RE: Local High School Suspensions: Your Opinion?
No, this has nothing to do with school. I can see that maybe they'd make the kids take some mandatory counseling at the school, but a suspension is whacked.
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| 02-13-2007 09:34 PM |
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RE: Local High School Suspensions: Your Opinion?
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Definetly not, what you do as a student outside school, isn't in general the school's business.
Exactly .
I'd say they would get in trouble, maybe stay after class for like 5minutes, but not a suspension . |
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RE: Local High School Suspensions: Your Opinion?
well Internet Bullying is a crime, and what they were doing was internet bullying. The headmaster could potentially have filed a proper complaint and maybe have them charged, but they decided to suspend them instead.
So I say, justified.
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NOT unless that they actually did something against them..
I once created an email with a teachers name, fooled around with some people... no insults, no nothing... just chatting.... and someone told the supervisor... they went to talk to me... and they FORCED me to log on to my messenger account, threatening on suspension...so did i, i had not logged in to my account after i added myself on my teachers account so the window popped out, supervisor BROWSED MY LIST, couldn't find a thing... she assured me that there was a way to see who you have talked to and the chat logs (i was thinking YEAH RIGHT) to try and scare me so i would confess... i denied it all... she said she knew it was me but she couldn't prove it... and I got off... i don't they can punish you IN SCHOOL for something you did outside of it... for example as if i egged a house and instead of the police taking me over my school expelled me automatically... unfair...
edit: i was 11 when i did that
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RE: Local High School Suspensions: Your Opinion?
Yes, everyone should have the right to defend himself. This is not just a question about students bullying principals - work colleagues or just random persons all have more or less the same rights. It just happened to be about school this time, and that's also a likely reason why it got reported.
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| 02-13-2007 10:24 PM |
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RE: RE: Local High School Suspensions: Your Opinion?
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Originally posted by Nitro
Definetly not, what you do as a student outside school, isn't in general the school's business.
Exactly .
I'd say they would get in trouble, maybe stay after class for like 5minutes, but not a suspension .
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| 02-13-2007 10:29 PM |
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RE: Local High School Suspensions: Your Opinion?
Well, having been part of a previous issue regarding the internet, and off school property stuff happening, I personally believe this to be unjustified. The principal had all the rights to sue the students, and etc. However, they did nothing wrong at school, and thus definitely should not be denied schooling for what happens outside school. If the comments had been posted while the students were inside the school, or using school computers, then the suspension would have been justified. I'm quite sure that the school principal (the story having made it on the news) is going to regret the decision because parents are going to get angry most likely.
I'm not saying the students shouldn't be punished, but they should be punished as normal people, and not as students, as it has nothing to do with their studies.
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