Frankly all, I expect this will go to court somewhere. It's gonna be intersting to see what happens.
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.
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.
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 Last I heard, the proposed rule had been quietly withdrawn, and the school's administrators had presumably absorbed their surprising discovery that not all "good people" think what they think about guns.