Students Suspended for Viewing Postings

	posted by Matt on 02:50 PM March 3rd, 2006
	Without condoning what the boy reportedly did, is it fair what happened in this case, particularly to the 20 other students? Would the school have taken these steps if a girl had done the same thing, only with a boy as the target of hostility?

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Suspended for LOOKING at the posts? (Score:1) by RandomMan on 05:22 PM March 3rd, 2006 EST (#1) What the hell? I can see suspending a kid who's threatening another kid, but suspending students for looking at the web? What nonsense. TeWinkle Middle School? Are they kidding with that name? Now this stupidity makes a bit more sense. I can see ANY kid stuck in a place with that name wanting to act out. How about TiddlyWinks High? Oh, gee, wait a minute, I might have offended someone, it must be a hate crime! I hope none of the students look at THIS post - they'll probably suspend them for thoughtcrimes too. Politcal correctness - an oppressor's favorite toy.

Any Kid (Score:1) by Davidadelong on 06:04 PM March 3rd, 2006 EST (#2) I suppose that by threatening another Child due to the fear that we live under in this country that any Child should/would be suspended. But suspending the whole class shows a very bad example. They are teaching the Children to overreact and act out of fear. Just more brainwashing for our Children so that they grow up acting out on fear, instead of facing their fear. The future of our nation, a bunch of frightened scared overgrown Children looking to big brother/sister to protect them. I shudder when I think of where they want to take us......

Vote with their feet! (Score:2) by Dittohd on 06:12 PM March 3rd, 2006 EST (#3) It doesn't sound like the parents are fighting this very hard. I wonder if there's stuff here that we don't know. I think that after fighting this, the parents should remove their kids from the school. If enough parents did this, the schools would change their attitude when they started losing so much of their federal funding which is based on their enrollment numbers. Many years ago, congress was taking benefit after benefit away from the military and when we complained, they told us that if we didn't like it, we should vote with our feet. Well so many did that they changed their attitudes. Real fast! Dittohd

About time! (Score:1) by Davidadelong on 09:32 PM March 3rd, 2006 EST (#4) In days of old when things were out of hand, and the Pirates would infiltrate an area there was a code that would start things going. I believe it was TOPSY TURVY. I think that we should turn things around so that this kind of thing doesn't happen, what about you? "It is a good day to die!"

Virtual Crime is Coming ... Oh, It's Already Here (Score:2) by Roy on 11:22 AM March 4th, 2006 EST (#5) I'm fascinated by this whole "virtual crime" scenario that's playing out on our screens everywhere. VAWA 2005 included a beefed-up definition of stalking which basically allows a person to be charged with stalking if s/he has sent two or more "unwanted or threatening" e-mails (or any other electronic communication) to another individual. Stalking used to require that the threatening behavior include physical proximity and at least two incidents of intentionally threatening behavior. (It's now much more subjective and "virtual.") Now, as Osama bin Laudin has shown repeatedly, it's possible to stalk the President of the United States just by releasing an occasional video or taped phone conversation. (The whole Osama vs. George Jr. macho drama is like a cyberspace version of "High Noon," only nobody ever actually shows up for the final drawplay!) The excellent book ODD GIRL OUT: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls" was just released as a movie on DVD. It's basically a tale about female aggression and friendship wars and the pathology of adolescent girls in high school. A major part of the movie's way of depicting this involves the "bad girls'" (and their boy allies) use of the Internet to harass, stalk, demean, and abuse their targeted "good girl." For example, they create a web site (could be hosted at a place like MySpace) that publishes a long series of derogatory animations, comments, and threats.) The film also shows teen girls using text-messaging, camera phones, and Instant Messaging to conduct their campaign of terror. The most interesting thing I got from viewing this movie (at my daughters' insistence) was how easily young women have adopted technology as a very useful extension of their age-old psychological warfare against each other. If I were considering law school today, I might specialize in virtual gender crime law... My fear (paranoia as an MRA?) is that cyberspeech is being legally defined as a physical act --- and this can only lead to THOUGHT CRIME. Google "Orwell" and "Huxley" for the particulars, while you can...)

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