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Article: Does your Web policy cover student sites? "Blogs" offer new opportunities--and challenges. .
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- District Administration
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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When a student in New York's prestigious Stuyvesant High School created an unofficial school Web site with a message board where the 3,000 students could evaluate teachers anonymously, hundreds of messages were posted daily. While some claimed that individuals assigned too much homework or were overly strict, anonymity also prompted the use of expletives and libelous charges such as "skirt chaser" and "pedophile." The site was shuttered after three teachers threatened legal action.
In a similar situation, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court ruled the Bethlehem Area School District did not violate a student's First Amendment rights when it expelled him for ...