been there
You all are automatically assuming the ACLU is telling the unvarnished version and this poor yoot is the victim here and the big bad school system is overreacting
uh huh
With all the horror stories about depressed or messed up kids using the internet to set up criminal acts, to bully, and even to broadcast suicide or other self harm, I do not blame the school for going postal, if there is cause. No one has heard the school's story here. They have legal advice too, you know.
If her sex talk involved her being exploited by an adult or older kids, or inciting other kids to join in, the school is a mandated reporter.
If you were a school monitor or the parent of other kids who were perhaps threatened or libeled by a depressed punk, , you would want the facts, too, even if the little 12 yr old darling had to give up some her “internet privacy” that she lied to obtain
I can’t believe how many responses I’m reading on this thread from “conservatives” who think this is okay. Any system that allows or mandates that the compulsory public school system take these kind of liberties with the privacy of a student with regard to an activity that takes place outside of school is just another example of the steady erosion of our freedoms and the expansion of the government’s facility to interfere in every aspect of life.
The idea that the school officials have to do this because they’re responsible is exactly the same mentality that, to one degree or another, drives almost every outrage and invasion perpetrated by the nanny-state left.
The school has neither the right nor the responsibility to regulate or review her Facebook account. Whether she should have one or not is totally beside the point. I don’t care if the kid is a bully, a cheat, a liar, or a bank robber. If it’s off the campus (and this example certainly qualifies as such) then it is not within the school’s purview to pursue it.
Take any other position, and you get exactly what we already have: a crappy, intrusive, petty tyranny that any of us or our children could run afoul at any time for five hundred stupid, arbitrary reasons.