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.
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well people file frivolous lawsuits all the time, wouldn't be the first : )
My hat's off to you, theDentist. You, sir or madam, are a true gentleman or lady of high standard. Thank you.
But I still believe someone is going to take it to the courts.
Quite possibly, but I don't think they'll end up with a leg to stand on. Then again, I have noticed in the past that the courts in this country sometimes act weirdly.
Don't you have a cleaning scheduled in the near future??? ;-)
"But I still believe someone is going to take it to the courts."
Quite possibly so. Given the increasingly tyrannical tendency of the judiciary, the suit may even make some progress. This promoting of "freedom" above every other competing value is what results in the development of a tyrannical culture, as described in book 9 of Plato's Republic. Those who relentlessly pursue release from all constraints on their actions end up enslaved to their passions, and become the most miserable people on earth. If they move on to become successful politicians, they also make all their neighbors very miserable, e.g., people like Saddam Hussein.
Can you explain what part of the Constitution prevents a private Catholic school from doing this?
A Private company cannot tell you what you can do in the privacy of your own home.
Interesting. I hadn't thought about that aspect of it, though it makes a lot of sense. As I said in another post, my current contract has a bunch of limiting rules in it, some of which revolve around actions that tend to bring discredit on the company.
Private school...
ergo not a government actor...
ergo not an act of Congress...
ergo not a Bill of Rights issue.
(IIRC, only the 14th Amendment has been applied against private/individual actions, and even then only because of interstate commerce... refusing motel lodging to blacks, wasn't it?)
You are entirely correct! By the same token, I can flip you the bird and walk away any time I want. That's called FREEDOM! Sucks, don't it?
It burns me when government, schools and religions try to control peoples lives. It goes against the very grain of freedom. Why do they think they are better qualified to run my life and guide my children than I? They'd be better off spending some time saving their own souls.
I can flip you the bird, both hands in response.
I've always thought it best to stay on the good side of all dentists everywhere. One never knows ... ;-)
I assume since this appears to be a private school that the parents have bought into this restriction. If so, then not a problem. But if not, BIG problem.
Yes. A good thought... is sometimes forgotten in battle.
I've made a note in your chart. See you soon. ;-)
Uh, yeah, they can, as long as what they are doing is well-known to the parents before they put their kids in the school (or the parents agree to a new rule after they have put their kids in the school). No one forces these students to attend. If they don't like the rules, they can always go to another school.
If your kids were attending this school, and you didn't like the rules, you could always pull your kids out.
There are plenty of sociopathic "managers" that would love to control every facet of their employee's lives, (and I've worked for a few) but they have a HIGH turnover rate, and frequently do not know why.
Nonsense. Private schools can have any rules, and any conditions for remaining, that they like. Parents agree to the rules when they enroll their kids, and generally agree to abide by whatever rules may be imposed/changed from time to time. If the parents don't approve of the rules, they can take their kid out of the school.
There's a very legitimate reason for this. Parents who are forking out money for private school are doing so largely to ensure that their children have a peer group to grow up with, which is being raised according to values similar to their own. I wouldn't want my kid hanging out with kids who are involved in the sorts of things commonly going on on MySpace.
A few years back, a very selective private school in my area reacted to the shooting death of one of their (low-income, black, scholarship) students at the hands of a relative, by announcing that beginning with the following school year, they would require all parents to sign a statement representing that they would not have any guns in their homes. It was perfectly legal for the school to do this. It was also perfectly legal for a sufficient number of parents to bluntly inform the school that their child(ren) wouldn't be returning the following year if the rule actually went into effect. Last I heard, the proposed rule had been quietly withdrawn, and the school's administrators had presumably absorbed their surprising discovery that not all "good people" think what they think about guns.
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