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Students can be punished for postings online
The Clark-Pleasant School Board has unanimously approved new guidelines letting the district punish students who post threatening and disruptive comments online.
The policy, approved at Tuesday night's meeting, will apply to student and employee postings on social networking sites such as MySpace.com and on blogs.
The policies are necessary as more students use the Internet to vent about issues at school, said Jim White, the Whiteland district's director of technology.
The policy informs students and teachers that they will be held legally responsible for anything posted online, including material deemed defamatory, obscene, proprietary or legally libelous.
The Clark-Pleasant School Board has unanimously approved new guidelines letting the district punish students who post threatening and disruptive comments online.
The policy, approved at Tuesday night's meeting, will apply to student and employee postings on social networking sites such as MySpace.com and on blogs.
The policies are necessary as more students use the Internet to vent about issues at school, said Jim White, the Whiteland district's director of technology.
The policy informs students and teachers that they will be held legally responsible for anything posted online, including material deemed defamatory, obscene, proprietary or legally libelous.
So if a student calles his cnut of a teacher a cnut on myspace, he can get punished?
Fascists...