[mckreck]

For anyone who is interested, I wrote about a story in the Chicago Sun-Times about a high school student who faces expulsion for a blog entry he wrote. As I started digging things up from the high school blogs at Xanga I was able to piece together some of what the fuss was about. Since there has been a lot of talk about schools censoring student blogs, and since this pretty much strikes right at the heart of the conservative divide between free speech and the desire that schools teach students to be good citizens, I thought people here might be interested. And for any parent who hasn't seen it, the Xanga links might prove instructive.

[geezerwheezer]

Seems like the kid is trying to make the point that the school system has become more "Big Brother" than he cares to embrace. Smart Kid !! When you let unelected school administrators dicate total policy over a child's life, then you have abdicated your rights as a citizen or as a parent. It's time t open up a can of full strength WHUPASS on this school district and set them straight.

[Boundless]

Yet another reason to phase out government schools.

Replace "ought wallowing" over web policy with
parents choosing or negotiating it when they
pick the school.

The prime directive of government schools is
preservation and expansion of government schools.
Free speech is fundamentally incompatible with that.

[FReepaholic]

...A student at a public high school ... faces an expulsion hearing next week.... The hearing has been called because the student posted on his blog at xanga.com that his district, District 202, had bullied and threatened him. ...

Looks to me like the school just proved the kids' point.