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Student Suspended Over IM Icon
Chris Reimer writes "C|Net News.com is reporting that a 15-year-old student lost a lawsuit over having an instant messenger icon that represented a death threat against an English teacher on his personal computer that another student reported to school authorities. From the article: 'His parents sued, claiming that the icon was protected by the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech, that the school district failed to train staff in proper threat assessment and that the school board violated state law in not following proper procedures. [The judge] Mordue rejected the free-speech claims.'"
Only idiots use "um" in speech and writing.
1st parents sue Hollywood for violent movies.
Then they sue game companies for violent games.
They sue Vivid for pornography.
Now they sue teacher because of the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of speech.
That is all so fucked up... It makes me want to bookmark and sponsor WBC again...
Parents and fear will destory your country.. They have already taken sexuality, evolution and freedom from you...
America is doomed!
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Nigger please.
Stop perpetuating the myth that school violence, gun nuts and death threats are a symptom of the age. Folks, people have been murdering each other for millennia. Leave it to Beaver and other claptrap from the fifties is not indicative of a more innocent time. Those shows serve to promulgate nostalgic propaganda which has no basis in reality.
A married couple sleeping in separate beds? No one ever says damn or hell? You're a temporally provincial fool with an inflated sense that this age is completely new and original full of new wonders and horrors.
Chew on this, if the world really reflected things like the Our Gang comedies and The Jack Benny Program then the atrocities of World War II would never of happened in Europe.