Hi everyone,
Last week, an Illinois school district adopted a new policy towards
student online activities that’s already stirring up a lot of
controversy. All students in the Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High
School District 128 participating in extracurricular activities will now
have to sign a pledge saying they will not post inappropriate content on
the Internet or they will face disciplinary action. The catch, though,
is that the pledge also applies to online activities done _outside_ of
school.
I've just written an analysis of the policy, based on previous research
I've done over the last decade on student online freedom of expression.
I take a look at a variety of legal precedents that might be relevant to
the policy, including US Supreme Court cases (Tinker v. Des Moines
School District and Board of Ed v. Earls) and local court cases such as
the Paul Kim Case, the Brendan Beussink case and the Nick Emmett case.
In all three of these local cases, schools punished students for online
activities that occured outside of school; the schools were then forced
to settle out of court or were ruled against by a judge for attacking
the student's free speech rights.
To read more, please visit here:
http://www.pbs.org/learningnow
permalink:
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learning.now/2006/05/punishing_students_for_online.html
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Andy Carvin
acarvin (at) edc . org
andycarvin (at) yahoo . com
http://www.andycarvin.com
http://www.digitaldivide.net
http://www.pbs.org/learningnow
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