This is week-and-a-half-old news, however it struck a nerve so I figured I’d post it. According to this article on App.com, Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta, NJ is threatening students to make them stop participating in social networking with websites such as MySpace, Facebook and Xanga. The article states:
Effective immediately, and over student complaints, the teens were told to dismantle their Myspace.com accounts or similar sites with personal profiles and blogs. Defy the order and face suspension, students were told.
While public and private schools routinely block access to noneducational Web sites on school computers, Pope John’s order reaches into students’ homes.
The primary impetus behind the ban is to protect students, McHugh said. The Web sites, popular forums for students to blog about their lives and feelings about their teachers and schools, are fertile ground for sexual predators to gather information about children, he said.
While it seems like the school is trying to protect its students, they are going about it the wrong way. Its a violation of free speech to police the students in this way. Educating the students about the dangers of a web presence would be a more reasonable approach.
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205 responses to “School Bans Social Websites”
I use http://www.fishandchips.co.cc at school. It’s works… for now :P
My school surely will block any website after a few days. If the IT admin find out too many request and bandwidth usage for any website, they will surely check the website and block it. (except wikipedia and education site lol)
Good luck anyway :)
this is really dumb. i mean, i can understand that the schools want to protect us from sexual predators and whatnot but its not like anything bad is gonna happen during school. i’m not a big myspace person but i do use facebook (which is also blocked) and thats where i’ve met a bunch of friends and my boyfriend (who i’ve been dating for 4 months). its not that bad to schools should just take a happy pill and get over it
All schools in my school distric have blck my space… But the code is so easy to break they dont even know it. We at school always find a way to get on my space. What the schools dont know is that a lot of kids are hakers and that can break the schools codes easily. They can even break into the principals computer.
But i think that MySpace is being block because if it wasnt every single person on computer class will be on it and not doing their work… We all know that…
And why get so pissed off, if they can never keep us of not loggin in into it. Like i said is easy to crak to codes.
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