Posted on 09/21/2006 5:44:48 AM PDT by laotzu
A fake web page on the website, myspace.com, has some Northside ISD students in legal trouble, News 4 WOAI learned Wednesday. The teens are accused of using the site to spread malicious rumors about their vice principal.
The vice principal is taking the students to court, News 4 WOAI learned.
On Clark High School's web page, a picture of Assistant Principal Anna Draker has been removed. According to Draker’s attorney, a couple of students doctored her pictures and posted them on myspace.com.
The civil lawsuit claims a couple of students who Draker disciplined retaliated by filing the myspace page. The web page was filled with lewd, defamatory and obscene comments, pictures and graphics, according to the suit.
The students even attacked the assistant principal's sexuality by posting false rumors, Draker’s attorney said. The suit claims Draker has been harassed by others accessing the web page.
Assistant Principal Draker is also suing the students parents, suggesting they have a duty to supervise the teens, according to court papers.
You remind me of the guy I ended punching in the nose in 7th grade so he would stop threatening me with violence.
"I will call the WAAAAMbulance.
Your boy is a momma's boy. I feel sorry for him, fatso."
Why don't you do the world a favor and keep your foolish outbursts to yourself. Loser.
I agree that you, sir, are a complete ass.
What is your major malfunction?
Yes this should be expected, but it should not be accepted. Kids will be kids no doubt, but it's up to parents to teach them what is acceptable and what is not. Retailiating against discipline is NOT acceptable. Since teachers can't spank, can't stand them in corners, etc. etc. what other recourse do they have then to take them to court. I've always believed if parents had to start "paying" for under age childrens bad behavior they would be more apt to make the little darlings behave.
Becky
Sounds a lot like what I've told MY boys. In fact, it sounds EXACTLY like what I've told my boys.
Regards,
PS: I'd also hand them their heads if they ever did anything like what the little darlings in the story did, too.
Children can commit torts.
IMO, parents ALLOWED the public educators to circumvent their authority. I don't blame the principle at all for going after the parents.
Becky
What really caught my attention last year was when the teacher contacted me and told me my son had punched a child. She didn't see it, so there wasn't anything that could be done about it; the other child told her the day after it happened. I talked to my son about it and he said the other child pushed him, he pushed back, the kid pushed again, and my son punched him. We've always taught the boys, walk away from words, if they touch you, have at it. We will never get after them for self-defense. My son is a very fun loving, easy going child. We were all shocked to learn he hit this kid, but hey, we know he listens.
Why the personal attack?
Most schools will block sites like Myspace.
We belong to an institution where kids would do this sort of thing regularly. The director's response was, "What can we do?" We actually found that we could report the situation to MySpace and they would take action.
So many people don't understand that it is the adults' job to run the world and the kids' job to be run.
Shalom.
This happened in Texas. When I was there most, if not all, ISDs supported parental authority and partnered with parents to educate the children.
Shalom.
Amen. Too many parents allow their children to run the family, to the detriment of the children. Let the parents be the adult and the kids be the children.
That is exactly what I have taught my sons and daughter. They know I will not tolerate bullies but I will defend anyone who sticks up for themselves.
This could be a ground-breaking case! Maybe every other person who has a fake site up about them can sue someone! Wow! I need to find someone to make a fake site about me so I can get offended by something pointless and sue them and get rich!
This case tells a lot more about the kids than it does the Vice-Principal. If they are capable of what is described in this post, they are kids who are out of control. I notice that this was their reaction to being disciplined. So already they must have been creating some problems.
A fake site about you isn't going to be quite the same as a fake and defamatory and slanderous one about the Vice-Principal of a school.
I see you are recently out of high school yourself.
Does your post indicate that you hold the actions of these kids as just an innocent prank?
This case is prima facia evidence of the attitudes that are created by the liberals running the school systems. They created these students in their own image, and now they are teaching them that they can also sue them because they "offended" them in the process.
Just remember, these students will be the leaders of your community in a few years, regardless of your take on this case.
"regardless of your take"
I'm not sure you are sure of my take on this.
As for the schools--they have been a problem for 40-50 years now. But so have parents. All I have to do is look around me--in the neighborhoods, around the local school grounds, in the malls and on the streets.
I have raised kids of my own and have had all kinds of experiences of having kids in schools.
The right training begins at home, and SHOULD continue at school, with parents working closely with the schools and making aboslutely sure that they are involved and that they have some clout about what goes on in their kid's school.
Of course, this is the ideal and unfortunately, this hasn't happened, nor has it even come close.
There certainly is a need for parent accountability. I see that as a vital part of the picture.
I am basically a contractor. I was contacted by a community college about teaching a class that they could not find a qualified "teacher" for. I informed the director of student services that there would be guidelines in the classes, there would be a grade scale, and that there would be a dress code, and there would be a code of conduct and he gets all red in the face and begins blurting about students rights. I figure that those who can do, and those who cant teach. Since I am one who does, and not one who teaches, I bid him AMF.
Oh, I forgot to add, that is why I said regardless. I dont care what your take is, it doesnt matter. Regardless of whose "fault" this is, all the finger pointing in the world is not going to change the fact that the kids from that school will be running for city council some day, holding community positions, and telling the people in their communities of San Antonio how they should be living their lives. If that doesnt scare some common sense into the people of the community, then they will have to live with what they have created.
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