High School Bans Blogs

schools are really getting hard core out of control with cencering and such. It is getting to the point where I can just not beleive it. There is so much red tape constinitally put up around everything that we can not appriciate much.

Something similiar but less serious happened at my friend's sister's Catholic school a few years ago. A lot of the kids in her class posted about their lives on Xanga, and complained about schoolwork, teachers, the principal, etc. Teachers somehow found out about the blogs, and the kids were punished. No one did anything to question the punishment, I guess because people didn't think the kids really knew what they were talking about in the first place. But the school didn't make any restrictions on blogging. It's been a couple of years since this happened and blogging hasn't been an issue since.

All I have to say is that I'm glad those days or over. It seemed that in high school they wanted to control every aspect of our lives if they could get away with it. I suppose being a member of a boarding program didn't help.

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This definately sounds like an infringement on freedom of speech. Just because they're minors, doesn't mean that you can take their rights away. The internet (and the blog world) is a place where you can freely express yourself. It is a world open to everyone. If a student wants to bitch about something going on in school, let them!
*This kind of control on students behavior will eventually cause a riot. And we wonder why kids hate school so much...

I don't see how a school can have authority or control over what its students choose to do or say outside of school. Teachers and administrators should be more concerned with what the issues are that cause the students to talk negatively about the institution in the first place, than with the fact that they are being vocal about them.

I have an almost identical blog entry on my site, based on the same thing happening in Sydney...so it's a worldwide problem...

http://b.liquidtoast.com.au/lauretterynne.php/lauretterynne.php?itemid=23

That is just so wrong. I understand that he wants to protect the school's image and people talking disrespectfully about the school, however, just because it's a private school doesn't mean that they can interfere with a kid's personal life and whatever they do. I went to a private school, and I remeber two years ago there was a whole issue about Xanga and displaying personal imformations and entries. A lot of kids got in trouble, their parents were informed about the entries that related to school and other stuff that was illegal. But in the end, it is a private school and basically you have to cooperate with them and their rules or else you're out.