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Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues
gwoodrow writes "We've all heard the 'fired because of MySpace' stories, where a simple blog or picture gets someone canned. But now one of the targets is fighting back. (The offending picture in this case was a snap from Halloween 2005 of the student in a pirate outfit drinking from a cup.)" From the article: "Teacher in training Stacy Snyder was denied her education degree on the eve of graduation when Millersville University apparently found pictures on her MySpace page 'promoting underage drinking.' As a result, the 27-year-old mother of two had her teaching certificate withheld and was granted an English degree instead. In response, Snyder has filed a Federal lawsuit against the Pennsylvania university asking for her education diploma and certificate along with $75,000 in damages."
Well the university's response is here: http://www.millersville.edu/announcements/snyder.p hp
They hint at some other problem which they can't go into because of 'federal student privacy restrictions'. I guess you'd expect them to say something like that though.
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This is the picture that is actually in dispute, described in this news article
Apparently, Conestoga Valley School District were threatening to not recruit any more teachers from her university, unless she was punished in some way.
Regardless of the picture, the School District or college have no right to amend her graduation qualifications, based on a single party photograph.
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From Lancaster Online, a local news outlet. In addition, the article talks about her being "unprofessional" during her student teaching, though whether that was determined before or after the picture was discovered isn't entirely clear:
Having grown up in the area (several of my friends went to Millersville; at my high school it was often thought of as the 13th grade because so many students from our district went there), this doesn't really surprise me. The stories I've heard from friends who got their degrees at Millersville generally indicated that the school was a pain to deal with on administrative issues, particularly in some departments. I guess the Ed. department is one of them.
Hence the promoting-underage-drinking.
Surely, it only promotes overage drinking, as the teacher in question is of legal age. Which means she's promoting an activity as legal as, say, firing off a few rounds down at the local gun club.
At some point, somewhere, the entire internet will be found to be illegal.
Excerpt: "However, school district solicitor Howard L. Kelin said Tuesday that criticism of the teachers contained in the lawsuit is unfair.
Kelin disputes the allegations the teachers, Deann Buffington and Nicole Reinking, influenced the college to withhold the degree.
Snyder was given a poor evaluation based on her performance while teaching at the high school and was warned not to direct students to her MySpace page, which contained the questionable photographs, Kelin said.
Despite being warned to maintain a professional relationship with her students Kelin said, Snyder continued to direct students to her Web page.
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Yes. Carl Sagan wrote about this, in "The Demon-Haunted World". Excellent book. It put together witch hunts, alien abductions, and "remembered traumas" that never happened, into a theory of human consciousness. Very well written.
Actually someone else posted this elsewhere in the thread, but there is definitely more to it.
http://bbsnews.net/article.php/20070502234811315
Seems she'd been reprimanded as a student teacher several times and she knew she was in the wrong. It doesn't seem to be as cut and dried as the original article would have us believe. Also, the picture posted in the original article is different than the one in the above article. Two very different images that give completely different impressions of a "teacher" if seen by students.
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That's what I though too, and since I figured at least one of us needed to actually RTFA I did. Strangely, that archive doesn't mention any other pictures:
A steaming cup of soykaf would be real wiz right now.
Isn't that what they call a straw man argument... I mean look at number two, you are invoking your opinion on why people believe certain things (it must be that they aren't getting any, so they don't want me to).
Speaking from experience, my "let 'em burn" attitude toward others "getting any" sharply reversed when I actually became capable of it. While I can't do justice to the training I got in a Slashdot post, the average geek would improve remarkably just by following these rules:
1) Don't be afraid to approach people in a friendly manner. You don't need fancy pick-up lines. Seriously.
2) Commit (e.g. sit down with them instead of hovering over) and get committment out of them (tell their own stories, jokes, buy you stuff in return for you buying them stuff).
3) Don't be afraid to reveal attraction.
It's true that not everyone opposes promiscuity for that reason, but I'd bet there's a strong correlation. In fairness, of course, birth control does not eliminate the risk of unwanted babies. Think about all the mouth-breathers who are supposed to apply it properly. It ultimately comes down to how big you think the magnitude of the negative event (one additional unwanted baby is), which reasonable people can disagree about.
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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=gen%2
Gen 1:27-28
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
Personally I think we are close to the "fill the earth and subdue it" part, unless our technology improves we won't be able to sustainably fill the earth with 10 x more humans.
And subdue != destroy the last I checked
I was raised a Catholic and from what I recall(its been a while) the opposition to contraception is based on the position that man doesn't have the right to judge weather someone can live or die. Only God has that right. Hence the church opposes capital punishment, abortion and birth control. The birth control argument is that man is interfering with the natural course of God plan... or whatever. I don't agree with their stance n birth control or abortion but I can have some sympathy for the capital punishment one.
Also I think most Catholics, at least in the west, pretty much ignore the whole no condom/no pill business. I know most of my (pretty Irish catholic) extended family do.
http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/203603 i guess the issue was more that she was posting to her student's websites and promoting her own myspace to them. Also she had other images on her site other than the seemingly innocuous one where she was making gestures etc. She was asked to stop conversing with her students online and did not stop. So this was not a single incident. She was also getting bad evaluations as a student teacher outside of this issue. So this doesn't seem to be just about someone having a myspace that was found by an employer.