SUPREME COURT OKAYS STUDENT MISBEHAVIOR
More news has arrived today that has to do with my post from yesterday. News item : School officials were put on notice Tuesday that they can be sued for violating the First Amendment if they discipline students who make vulgar and malicious postings from their home computers. The U.S. Supreme Court turned down appeals from two Pennsylvania school districts that were successfully sued by students who were suspended for creating mock profiles of their principals as sex addicts or drug users. The students contended their MySpace postings were off-limits to school authorities.
Ah, America, what a country! I hope all students enjoy their new freedom to trash their principals. Why stop with online postings? I think students should have the right to give their opinions about teachers and principals while they are at school. I can imagine the principal walking down the hallway and students loudly verbalizing their negative opinions of him. It certainly would make for an interesting school environment.
This is America, where free speech reigns! This is America, where there is a money-making opportunity behind most stories. I have just thought of a way to make thousands of dollars off of this controversial Supreme Court ruling. I’m going to establish a web site called, TRASHYOURPRINCIPAL.ORG. I will encourage students to send in the most outrageous comments possible about their principals. I will offer prizes to the most creative and demeaning comments that are submitted. This site will be huge. Advertisers will be begging me to throw their money my way. This should certainly augment my already lucrative, er, I mean, meager teacher pension.
On an unrelated note; the Supreme Court also turned down an appeal that sought to allow a greater use of Christian prayers at county board meetings. The justices let stand a ruling holding the Forsyth County, N.C. board violated the First Amendment’s ban on an “establishment of religion” by opening its sessions with a Christian prayer.
Ah, America, what a country. Prayer is bad, malicious and vulgar postings are good.
