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Good for her!
The shame of this whole thing is that the taxpayers pay the penalty, not the individuals performing the infraction.
It’s time to hold each teacher and administrator of our public schools PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for any (and all) violations of our personal freedoms...not the taxpayers.
What it comes to is the fact that our public school employees really have nothing to fear other than a “bad mark” on their records while the real penalties are paid by everyone else...the taxpayer.
Thankfully MY PUBLIC SCHOOL would NEVER do anything like this, because, well, it’s my public school - not hers, and we have BETTER PEOPLE running it here.
(how conservatives rationalize sending their kids to public schools...regardless of what they read here)
“The ACLU also said administrators viewed her online conversations between the then-Minnewaska Area Middle School sixth-grader and a boy because of a complaint the two were using computers to talk about sex.”
Hmm. I would bet good money that the school also encouraged kids to “talk about sex” because it’s “perfectly normal”. Why would they then get upset if the kids take their advice?
They should be in jail including the deputy.
Should have been personal fines and not the district.
While I don’t believe a child has all of the rights of an adult, I don’t believe she should have been forced to give up her password.
And no doubt the school admins are all liberals.
The admins asked her to violate her user agreement with Facebook and they in turn violated FB by asking for it. If the admins have FB accts. then they should be banned from it.
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.”
Today’s version of “papers and effects” is the computer and digital files.
$70,000...
SHE DIDN’T SUE FOR ENOUGH!
What chick manure thin skinned wimps. The principal, sheriff, and whoever else was in the office should now be charged with a civil suit. A “disparaging” remark gets thisnattention? No, they just want that girl to know she lives in a police state and the state must not be mocked. Have fear.
tHis is just another little sleepy little school district that got a rude awakening.
maybe some will now recognize the Spanish Inquisition
Age II that we live in..
Big brother is watching from the public schools.
How did they "make her" give them her password. She needs to learn how to say "Fuck off" in scholastically admissible language, and call the cops on her cell if they persist and won't let her leave. Anything not pertaining directly with school is none of their business and none of their business to demand.
The teachers and administrators were just jealous a student was getting sex with someon else.
“Made” her give over her password? Intimidation in the school? My younger kids would have told them, “Go talk to my Dad.” My oldest would have told them to get bent and then, “Go talk to my Dad.” They would not have enjoyed that talk with me and my attorney. The message these “modern” schools are sending is that bullying is bad, except when school officials do it. People need to stop caving to these bullies and stand up for what is right.
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