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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:33:48 -0400 From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IP] Student Blogs, School Cracks Down The land of the free... Djf ------ Forwarded Message From: Kenneth Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:28:29 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Student Blogs, School Cracks Down Weblogs and journals are nothing new, although they have really taken off in the past year. This is a developing story related to freedom of speech and restrictions on expression. Kenneth =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.leoville.com/mt/: Free Sammy (07:36 AM) Category: Technology Use a blog, go to jail? One of the Leoville Town Square regulars, BEACHTechie, aka Sam, is a high school student in Virginia Beach, VA. He recently got busted by the school administration for blogging, of all things. They seem to think blogging from school is a violation of their acceptable use policies. Perhaps it is. Sammy will be blogging from home from now on. But it seems to me that instead of discouraging blogging they should encourage each student to create one. After all, most writing classes encourage their students to keep journals, and that's exactly what a blog is. I've posted a message of support in Sam's blog, http://www.sammydman.com. I hope the school reads it. Ignorance breeds fear. This is why I consider it so important to educate everyone on the value of computers and the Internet. I hope his school's administrators take the time to learn about blogging. I think they'll see that it's no threat. The Students blog is here: http://www.sammydman.com/ This is the post: http://www.sammydman.com/archives/000805.php Just call me Dennis, I keep on getting in trouble at school! I was in the office again today, balling my eyes out. Lets just say one of the options is to have me expelled from the school. I was gasping for air half the time I was in there. I had to write this affidavit telling them everything I knew about my blog, how long I had been posting from school, who else from my school had a blog and everything. I was crying the entire time. And don't you dare joke me for crying. I mean, you'd cry too if you had a PERFECT perm. record and then have it screwed up in high school and mess up your chances of getting into the college of your choice. I am going to hold back my anger and frustration for the wall in front of me. Dad is picking me up in a minute, ttyl. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ *** Past Messages, Discussion http://e-democracy.org/do *** *** To subscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** Message body: SUB DO-WIRE *** *** To UNSUBSCRIBE instead, write: UNSUB DO-WIRE *** *** Please forward this post to others and encourage *** *** them to subscribe to the free DO-WIRE service. *** *** Please send submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
