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A week after a teacher was suspended for posting a vague complaint about an unidentified student on her Facebook page, a student from another school is given a pass for posting a specific complaint about a teacher on hers.
Katie Evans is no longer enrolled at Pembrook Pines Charter High School in Florida, but in 2007 she was a senior there and unhappy with one of her teachers. She set up a Facebook page to vent about “the worst teacher I’ve ever met.” If she expected sympathy from her fellow students, she didn’t get it. Instead, she was attacked by students who actually liked the teacher. Evans responded by taking the page down a few days later.
But Evans’ classmates weren’t the only ones who had a problem with her Facebook complaining. After school principal Peter Bayer got wind of it, he did more than disagree — he took advantage of his position of power and punished the honors student. Despite the fact that the page had long been removed, Bayer pulled Evans from her Advanced Placement classes and suspended her for three days. Continue reading »
Two teen girls took sexually suggestive photos and posted them on Myspace. No surprise there. So why did the school suspend them from sports and force them to make an official apology to the school’s athletic board? Continue reading »
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