Middle School Suspends 20 for looking at offensive MySpace AT HOME

Some parents questioned whether the school overstepped its bounds by disciplining students for actions that occurred on personal computers, at home and after school hours.

Now I would understand if they disciplined students for viewing this on school computers, but this is redicuelus. The School doesn't have the right to interfeare with what people browse on there home computers outside of school. If they could discipline people from viewing MySpace (which I don't like the site anyway), then theoretically, they could descipline for looking at other sites that they dont like...just food for thought.

After reading the AP news article: After actually reading the article, (not just the digg summary) a few...more important details come to light. That this MySpace profile contained threats to another classmate, involving a shotgun; the name of the MySpace group was also expletive "'I hate (girl's name)' and included an expletive and an anti-Semitic reference." Now in this situation, the school DOES have the right (at least in my school system) to suspend students for such actions. If the profile didn't have these threats, as well as the disturbing name for the MySpace group, then it would be different. The person that summarized this on digg needed to summarize it a little better, expecially describing the details about the theats, not just calling it "offensive". Just my opinion though.

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