Posted on 03/23/2007 10:30:42 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
i luv ya, fredhead, and i knew you weren't a parent yet and that's the only reason you didn't see it that way : )
yes, I have two daughters, both of whom are or have been on myspace.com. myspace.com breeds a lot of mischief.
Certainly the private school can dictate what cannot be done at the school. i just don't think it can dictate what can be done outside of the school.
The private school does have the right to turn away children who don't meet its criteria, and if the school wishes to turn away children who have a myspace account, it's the school's perogative
Sure they can. Private companies can pretty much make whatever limiting rules of conduct they like. If the employee doesn't like it, the employee doesn't have to work there.
Maybe you have the right to sing all you want, but that doesn't mean the employer has to put up with it, whether you do it at home or elsewhere. After all, do you have a "right" to a job with a specific private company?
Public employers, on the other hand, have a much tougher time with this.
the policy has been in effect for at least 4 years at my duaghter's HS as she is a senior this year. these rules have been around and if there has been any successful challenge i am not aware of them and the policy is intact. again, RECOURSE is to take your kid out if you don't like the rules. most parents WANT their rules defended by the school they are paying tuition to, not undermined.
Just applies to government actions. The Catholic church isn't a governmental institution.
Nope!
But they can tell you that you're not welcome in their PRIVATE SCHOOL, if they determine you have a 'myspace' account.
Your choice!
Do you want to play on 'myspace' or go to their school?
Yes, they can (not including pre-exisiting contractual obligations, if any). In addition, my state is an at-will employment state so I can be fired for nearly anything.
A company can demand I don't smoke or do other drugs. It can fire me because it didn't like my letter to the editor. It can dump me if it discovered my secret porn career or membership in the KKK. It can demand I live within a certain geographic distance of the office place. And on and on....
UNfortunately, the journalist did very little to try to clarify that this was a private school, and in their online poll they say "should school officials" rather than "should private school officials", so I'm certain most people answering the poll think they are talking about public schools.
This may be so for a public school, but not for a private one. They can establish their own limiting rules of conduct and exclude students who don't comply.
If the student or parents don't like it, they can always go back to the public school system.
i am telling you as a consumer of private school education for the last 14 years, the reason we are shelling out the not inconsequential amount is to be able to rely on the schools to back up the standards that we hold. it is SO public school to want to buck the system, so then GO there.
exactly! it is pretty clear to me that the ones objecting here have never paid for private school!
Luddites!
When a student is not in school, he/she has every right to post a website despite the school's position.
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Perhaps. However the school can invite such students to seek their education elsewhere, and has that right too, as a private institution.
Catholic schools always have picky ethical rules. If the student doesn't like it, go back to the public school system.
MySpace is a bad place for kids, but frankly any kid who decides to fight this in court will win.
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?
It's clearly within the rights of a private company to do so. What makes you think otherwise?
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Indeed. There is no "suppression" involved. If one does not accept this condition of employment, he or she can move on to a place more compatible with them, or become self-employed (at which point they will answer directly to their customers, rather than through an employer's cushioned setting).
As a private Catholic school, do you believe they have the right to deny enrollment to a student who actively participate in a public Satanic Cult? Why would this be different?
But I still believe someone is going to take it to the courts.
See post 78
My current contract prohibits "moral turpitude", "conduct tending to bring discredit upon the company", and "making public statements to the detriment of the company, its management, or its board of directors" among other things. And that's whether I do it at work or in the privacy of my own home (though how would they know, I wonder?)
I also work in an "at will" state, so I can be fired for no reason at all.
Why do I put up with this? Well, they pay me insanely well for what I do, of course.
On the other hand, if I decide I would like to engage in moral turpitude, I can also quit and go work for the government. Maybe I could get a grant from the NEA if my morals became really turpitudic (is that a word? ;-)
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