IL School District to Monitor Student Blogs

tinkertim writes "According to a Yahoo article, a school district in Libertyville, IL will be holding students accountable for illegal actions discussed in their MySpace blogs even if such actions in no way involved the school or another student. A spokesperson for the school district was quoted as saying: 'The concept that searching a blog site is an invasion of privacy is almost an oxymoron,' he said. 'It is called the World Wide Web.' Supposedly, no direct monitoring or snooping will be done unless the school receives a report from a concerned parent, community member or other student."

Comments

Click-through license

[Anonymous Coward]

The bloggers should implement click-through licenses that prohibit reading by or the reporting to of the information to school authorities.

Re:Makes perfect sence to me

[morcheeba]

... and the people who can't spell, too. Their always the first up against the whall ;-)

Re:'splain this to me better

[Anonymous Coward]

This is the state of IL and we have found a problem with your comment. You have stolen a diamond ring. You will not have to go to jail. You will get as follows:

          1. Give the diamond ring to me untill after class.
          2. 5-Day Suspention.
          3. Teacher-Parent Conference.

Please give this note to your parents.

IL SlashSchool
Mike Pricipal, Principal

Re:Don't forget...

[Evilest Doer]

No, "someone" doesn't. And generally when "someone" with no claim to a kid decides to start monitoring them, it's called STALKING.

Or, it could be called "a day on the job at Dept of Homeland Security".

Stop ahead. Pay troll.

[Ungrounded Lightning]

Why is this marked as a troll?

Maybe a school administrator had mod points?

Re:But remember

[hobbesx]

Hmmm... Wouldn't it just be a shame if it was discovered the schools's principal had an incriminating Myspace account! And to think that they were such a moral person...