Posted on 03/23/2007 10:30:42 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- One Bloomfield Hills school is enforcing a new policy that will end the use of a popular Web site on the premises.
St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School students were informed recently that under a new school policy, Think First, Stay Safe, the use of MySpace.com will be prohibited at school and at home.
The policy states that students enrolled in the school can't have a MySpace.com account or any similar type of personal site, according to a news release.
(Excerpt) Read more at clickondetroit.com ...
Idiots.
MySpace is a bad place for kids, but frankly any kid who decides to fight this in court will win.
And here comes the ACLU! (bleech!)
Anonymity baby, Anonymity.
Can you say UN-Constitutional. Typical liberal-think. Will be thrown out as soon as it hits the courts.
On what grounds would a student or parent have to file a lawsuit? It's a private school.
Dumb move on the school's part -- trying to impose rules on students' home life.
I'll tell you what - let's make a deal. I won't fix teeth, and you won't give bad legal advice.
Seeing as this is a private high-school (“St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School”), they can pretty much make whatever rules they want regarding student activity.
After all, no one is required to attend ...
Can you say UN-Constitutional. Typical liberal-think. Will be thrown out as soon as it hits the courts.
Probably not. It's just a condition of continued enrollment for a private school.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
my son and daughter are both in private Catholic high schools with the same prohibition. i fully support it.
Under what article or amendment? Let's start with the first part of the first amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"
I think myspace.com has gotten out of hand, but this decision is not a school's responsibility.
New Jersey schools are also taking over behavior 24/7, including summers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1804820/posts
Flap Over Jersey Schools Regulating Student Behavior 24-7
Notice post 17:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1804820/posts?page=17#17
The new national guidelines have changed the role of parents to STAKEHOLDERS of their children.
Agreed
First Amendment, PAR35. "Freedom of Speech".
There is a poll at the site, http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/11331017/detail.html
Let the Freeping commence !!!
If Scotts-Ortho and WEYCO can regulate their employees' behaviors when they're off the clock -- i.e., they can't smoke...
First Amendment. "Freedom of Speech".
ping
You're surprised that a Catholic school wants to impose rules on the school life and home life of its students? It's been happening forever, and the school is within its rights. They have expectations of the PARENTS, too.
Anyone doesn't like it, they don't have to pay for religious education at St. Hugo.
Hmmmmm.
That only applies when GOVERNMENT is involved in suppressing the speech.
If it was a state school, you would have a better case.
Wait until your job
prohibits you from having
a Freeper account . . .
And that is entirely the point I should have made at first: this school can create and enforce rules of conduct that would be unacceptable at a public school. That's the benefit of being able to choose the school; the parents can pick a school that is in line with their own beliefs.
Unfortunately I completely missed the name of the school when I made my first post (#8).
My daughter deleted her account on myspace.com due to hackers, stalkers, etc. however, she is now on another similar site where her church has a webpage. It's safer and by invitation only.
it is an employer's perogative as it is a private school's.
So as long as I am not in the Gov't , I can suppress YOUR free speech? If your company (assuming you worked for some org, not self-employed) says you cannot post on FreeRepublic, then it's OK to suppress your speech?
My son and daughter are in Catholic school also, they don't have a policy but if they find a student with a my space account they call the parents and have a meeting. Usually doesn't work out for the kid. parents usually didn't know they had a my space account.
I don't think I will want my kids on myspace.
However, a school has no right to keep a kid from having one at all, which this basically says. That's a parenting job, not the school.
Well, no one forces you to have a particular job. Get a job somewhere else or, better yet, start your own company and make your own rules.
you got it. that's exactly why we pay the tuition.
When a student is not in school, he/she has every right to post a website despite the school's position.
I don't think they have the right to say they can't have one at all - I don't see how that's a school's responsibility - it is the parents!
Slippery slope and all that.
Private schools can also still act in local parentis, unlike government schools.
parents send their kids to private schools so that they can expect their own rules to be reinforced by the school. kids were using their school email addresses for these pages. the IT guy at the school printed off all the names and the school began contacting the parents. if the parents don't like the rules, they can certainly stop paying tuition and send their kid elsewhere.
The "at home" makes the difference.
Some Free Republic posters fail to read complete article before replying
freerepublic.com ^ | 23 Mar 2007 | keat
Posted on 03/23/2007 10:51:00 AM PDT by keat
Private schools can have conduct policies which goes beyond school hours. There are Catholic Schools that have banned teachers for adultry for instance.
Pretty much so. If you don't like the rules one employer has, go find another one. Or, better yet, start your own company and make your own rules.
Except for pretty limited categories, employers can make whatever rules they want for employees. Then again, no one forces one to work for a particular employer.
It's clearly within the rights of a private company to do so. What makes you think otherwise?
It most certainly is the school's responsiblity to determine what kind of atmosphere they want to maintain in a private school.
Ever been around teens? geesh MySpace dominates a good part of the conversation.
They ARE minors, and their ADULT parents can choose to send them to school elsewhere, if the parents object.
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