School's Policy Prohibits Use Of MySpace Site (even at home - Michigan)

Click on Detroit ^ | March 23, 2007 | Click on Detroit

[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.

[Malacoda]

If Scotts-Ortho and WEYCO can regulate their employees' behaviors when they're off the clock -- i.e., they can't smoke...

[theDentist]

First Amendment. "Freedom of Speech".

[Calpernia]

ping

[hellinahandcart]

trying to impose rules on students' home life.

You're surprised that a Catholic school wants to impose rules on the school life and home life of its students? It's been happening forever, and the school is within its rights. They have expectations of the PARENTS, too.

Anyone doesn't like it, they don't have to pay for religious education at St. Hugo.

[keat]

St. Hugo of the Hills

Hmmmmm.

[gdani]

First Amendment, PAR35. "Freedom of Speech".

That only applies when GOVERNMENT is involved in suppressing the speech.

[ishabibble]

The school did this. That's fine. WHERE ARE THE PARENTS?

The bumper crop of daycare babies on MySpace is so scary that there is absolutely nothing else that fills me with such despair. Our young girls are living in cyberspace, totally disconnected from reality until they meet some jailbird creep pedo who wants to understand them. For confirmation, just look at feminism false godess Oprah's Oxygen TV channel. You've never seen such debasement of women as that two bit cable BS. Oprah was way bad before, now she is a criminal, IMHO. The real Oprah is a severely messed up pathetic woman on every level. Just watch that junk cable station for an hour. Pukin' on your shoes ugly!

Give the officials at St. Hugo a medal for drawing a line in the sand. Some 12 yr. old girls might actually make it to teenager with virginity intact. What a concept...

[Always Right]

First Amendment, PAR35. "Freedom of Speech".

If it was a state school, you would have a better case.

[theFIRMbss]

>my son and daughter are both in private Catholic high schools with the same prohibition. i fully support it.

Wait until your job
prohibits you from having
a Freeper account . . .

[Brujo]

my son and daughter are both in private Catholic high schools with the same prohibition. i fully support it.

And that is entirely the point I should have made at first: this school can create and enforce rules of conduct that would be unacceptable at a public school. That's the benefit of being able to choose the school; the parents can pick a school that is in line with their own beliefs.

Unfortunately I completely missed the name of the school when I made my first post (#8).

[marsapan]

My daughter deleted her account on myspace.com due to hackers, stalkers, etc. however, she is now on another similar site where her church has a webpage. It's safer and by invitation only.

[xsmommy]

it is an employer's perogative as it is a private school's.

[theDentist]

So as long as I am not in the Gov't , I can suppress YOUR free speech? If your company (assuming you worked for some org, not self-employed) says you cannot post on FreeRepublic, then it's OK to suppress your speech?

[cath26]

My son and daughter are in Catholic school also, they don't have a policy but if they find a student with a my space account they call the parents and have a meeting. Usually doesn't work out for the kid. parents usually didn't know they had a my space account.

[RockinRight]

I don't think I will want my kids on myspace.

However, a school has no right to keep a kid from having one at all, which this basically says. That's a parenting job, not the school.

[Brujo]

Wait until your job prohibits you from having a Freeper account . . .

Well, no one forces you to have a particular job. Get a job somewhere else or, better yet, start your own company and make your own rules.

[xsmommy]

the parents can pick a school that is in line with their own beliefs

you got it. that's exactly why we pay the tuition.

[theDentist]

When a student is not in school, he/she has every right to post a website despite the school's position.

[RockinRight]

I don't think they have the right to say they can't have one at all - I don't see how that's a school's responsibility - it is the parents!

Slippery slope and all that.

[NathanR]

Schoolchildren have less Freedom of Speech rights, than you do.

Private schools can also still act in local parentis, unlike government schools.