Posted on 01/28/2006 6:04:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The principal acts like he needs a tube of Preparation H.
Can't be sure based upon this article but I might side with the ACLU for the first time in decades.
The kid should be punished but it was a funny prank. He should've used a free anonymizer service. lol How thin the skin of the mighty.
This is just chilling. The jackboots have run amok in the USSA and the "conservatives" are usually on their side, so it's only gonna' get worse.
I hope the kid wins a big settlement and defects to a free country.
The principal should sue this student and ACLU for defamation of character and spreading a false profile, pretending that the principal is the one who filled this out. The student should be banned from graduation, and made to wear a sign for one year that he is a criminal who defames other's character for no reason.
I'll take a wild guess that this kid is a jerk and has a track record of doing stupid things. I could be wrong about this - I thought I was wrong once before, but I was mistaken.
>>...funny prank<<<
Defamation and slander are not funny. You would not be laughing if you were depicted in the same light as the school principal, or would you?
Hermitage school ping
Chilling is that some people here think it's perfectly OK to defame and slander someone under the guise of youthful indiscretion and humor. Imagine yourself as the subject of the youth's activities. Or would you enjoy that?
Yep. The punishment didn't remotely fit the crime.
A little over the top, don't you think?
If this kid was prone to bad behaviour and the principal had to reprimand him after the kids insulting parody, there would have been a lawsuit anyway. The principal was in a "no win" situation I feel. Putting him in a different school would assure that the principal wouldn't be accused of prejudicial treatment.
It really depends. As long as it were taken down when requested then what is the big deal? He deserved a few days of in school suspension but the school was within its rights to punish him how it saw fit but I still think it is just a kid who was doing a stupid kid thing. It is not like he had his principle added to a fake child molester registry or something serious like that. (Such things are not difficult to do.) If the kid were really being malicious and had a history of it then I would agree with the punishment. I suppose when inflation of character becomes a crime then I would be more willing to worry about defamation of such.
I'll take a wild guess that this principal is a jerk and has a track record of doing stupid things.
Hate to break this to you but a "parody" is not slander nor defamation, but protected speech.
This is off topic, but do you happen to work in Pittsburgh as a high school principal.
Simply saying it's parody does not make it so.
Everyone who is siding with the "kid" and the aCLU on this one why don't you send me your name and photo and I'll set you up for ridicule on that sewer MySpace.com. I promise I'll make it really hilarious. A "prank." Drugs, booze and sexual disorientation will be guaranteed in your "profile."
"The principal should sue this student and ACLU for defamation of character and spreading a false profile, pretending that the principal is the one who filled this out. The student should be banned from graduation, and made to wear a sign for one year that he is a criminal who defames other's character for no reason."
Your exactly right. The kid should take responsibility for his actions and the ACLU should be made to realize that defamation of character and fraud are not a right in our country.
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