Student suspended for facebook slam against teacher

[Ooh La La]

I just really wanted to use that Tinker v. Des Moines quote. A case that probably pertains much more to this would be Papish v. Board of Curators of the University of Missouri.

Oooh, I almost forgot Frederick v. Morse, or the Bong Hits 4 Jesus case. In a 5-4 decision, the court actually ruled in favor of the administration but it is still nonetheless a good read.

[Ooh La La]

I am not saying that these cases directly prove what I'm trying to say, but that aspects of them relate, which I probably should have been more clear about before. Facebook is so new, that this could potentially end up being the first major trial to set future precedent.

To lighten the mood, has anyone seen this?
http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/09/not...-fb-bitch-job/

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Ooh La La

Facebook is so new . . . .

No lie. In the other thread, when you mentioned high school teachers trying to friend you, I felt very old. I mean, when I was in high school, "facebook" meant an actual book with pictures of people's faces in it so you could identify them.

[srmom]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

No lie. In the other thread, when you mentioned high school teachers trying to friend you, I felt very old. I mean, when I was in high school, "facebook" meant an actual book with pictures of people's faces in it so you could identify them.

Too true!! Here's a sure-fire way to get your kids off facebook - get all the parents to join and then "friend" their friends

Back to this situation. In my day, the way something like this would have been handled is by the principal sending the kid to the football coach for swats - that was the universal punishment for boys. I heard the paddle had holes in it for aerodynamics.

That's how lessons were learned in the dark ages.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by srmom

Back to this situation. In may day, the way something like this would have been handled is by the principal sending the kid to the football coach for swats - that was the universal punishment for boys. I heard the paddle had holes in it for aerodynamics.

The aerodynamics allows for the paddle to swing faster and also distributes the swat over a smaller area. A properly designed paddle can allow a typing teacher to swat like a PE teacher with a non-holed padded and a PE teacher to raise welts...

[srmom]

Originally Posted by naraht

The aerodynamics allows for the paddle to swing faster and also distributes the swat over a smaller area. A properly designed paddle can allow a typing teacher to swat like a PE teacher with a non-holed padded and a PE teacher to raise welts...

You speak as if you have experience with this. Were you the swatter or the swattee?

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by srmom

Too true!! Here's a sure-fire way to get your kids off facebook - get all the parents to join and then "friend" their friends

I've used better ways to keep a kid off of myspace and facebook. Seriously.

I agree with sigmadiva about post-Columbine and I think it's a mixture of that and changing standards for an Internet generation. When I was in school (and those of you who are gracefully older ) these things didn't exist and parental and school supervisorswere preoccupied with "real life" interactions and troubles.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Ooh La La

To lighten the mood, has anyone seen this?
http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/09/not...-fb-bitch-job/

You should've thought about keeping the mood light before you tried to assume how I felt about kids.

But, it all makes sense now that we know that you aren't too much older than a high schooler.

[Ooh La La]

You know what, sometimes I wish it were still like that. As a college student, I feel like my entire social life revolves around facebook. I almost had a nervous breakdown when it wasn't working the other day.

That's not healthy!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Ooh La La

You know what, sometimes I wish it were still like that. As a college student, I feel like my entire social life revolves around facebook. I almost had a nervous breakdown when it wasn't working the other day.

That's not healthy!

LOL. Remember last year, when people were giving up facebook for Lent?

I check my facebook page about twice a month. I don't think my status has been updated since Thanksgiving.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

I check my facebook page about twice a month. I don't think my status has been updated since Thanksgiving.

I checked my Facebook 8 times while this page was loading lol

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I checked my Facebook 8 times while this page was loading lol

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Sad, but true

[Ooh La La]

My rho gamma had to shut down her facebook for recruitment and she said sometimes in the middle of the night she would wake up and reactivate it because she hated being let out of the loop. Not to mention that all of us college students are lazy, all of our party invites come through facebook.

[ree-Xi]

This whole incident reminds me of the "Burn Book" in the movie "Mean Girls", when Cady wrote "Ms Norbury is a pusher. A sad old drug pusher." In the real world, what would happen if a student wrote something like this online?

Now I'm recalling Journalism school discussions on libel, slander and malice.

(This might be the third time I have quoted that movie here. I think I've seen it too many times.)