"School District to Monitor Student Blogs", that is the name of the article I just finished reading. This was released by the associated press and can be found here.
This article talks about how a schoolboard in Illinois has voted to:
require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropriate" behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for disciplinary action.
Some may say that this is uncalled for. To this the Associate Superintendent said :
The concept that searching a blog site is an invasion of privacy is almost an oxymoron," he said. "It is called the World Wide Web."
I will be quick to agree that the schoolboard has every right to snoop through students myspace pages which are public. However requiring students to agree to be disciplined for things the schoolboard may find inappropriate is another thing. This is where I draw the line. So now we are limiting what High School students can post on their on webpage? How much longer before we start limiting what college students are allowed to post on their websites? I mean while we are at it should anyone be able to post on their website what someone else may find offensive? Probably not, thank goodness big brother is here to save us from ourselves. Whatever would we do??
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