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Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments
Be careful just how you vent online is the lesson from this story pointed out by reader kungfugleek, from which he excerpts: "A University of Minnesota student has been banned from the Twin Cities campus after three of her instructors felt threatened by some of her Facebook postings. Amanda Tatro was patted down and questioned by campus police when she got to class Monday. The 29-year-old mortuary science student had posted comments on her Facebook page after breaking up with her boyfriend. She told her Facebook friends she wanted to stab a 'certain someone in the throat' with an embalming instrument. Tatro said she was 'looking forward to Monday's embalming therapy.' When the instructors learned of the postings, they contacted police." The Star-Tribune's account offers more detail.
Real adults take repsonsibility for their actions and words no matter on or offline.
Actually, FWIW a friend of mine went to mortuary school, and he said they seemed to make an extra-special effort in the first semester or so to weed out all the emo and Goth types who signed up just because they thought the classes would be super cool and icky.
Mortuary school is basically vocational training. When you have a job as a mortician, you are expected to be diligent, attentive to detail, and to maintain an attitude of respect and sensitivity to the feelings of the families of the deceased. Whether you're actually a violent person or not, expressing fantasies about death and violence and describing your embalming classes as "therapy" (i.e. you take pleasure in messing with the dead bodies) will probably be frowned upon by a mortuary school. It's just not the right attitude for the job.
Should you be kicked out for it? Maybe not. But any school would probably see it as a red flag and they'd make your life harder for it.
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