PA Appeals Court Weighs Punishment For Students' Online Parodies

crimeandpunishment writes "Is it a student's right to free speech or a school's right to discipline? A US Appeals Court in Pennsylvania heard arguments Thursday on a case that could have far-reaching implications. The issue involves the suspension of two students, from two different Pennsylvania school districts, for web postings they made on their home computers. The students posted parody profiles on MySpace that mocked their principals. The American Civil Liberties Union argued on behalf of the students."

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homeschooling

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creates children who are not very well socialized

it's also usually the realm of parents who want to indoctrinate their children into a fringe ideology. so you're creating these little brainwashed robots who, without any real peers, can't make up their own minds and put into the proper perspective the bullshit their parents are ramming down their throats

if your ideology is sound, you have no fear of your children comparing your beliefs with the beliefs of others. putting them in isolation to form their beliefs automatically betrays the fact that you fear exposure to other ideas. exposure to other ideas can only strengthen your own ideas. so sheltering your children, sheltering them from exposure to other ideas is a form of weakness, and automatically flags your ideas as suspect

that's funny

[circletimessquare]

"step outside your neonazi bunker and experience the world"

which is exactly what homeschool children need to do

go to a school, you have peers. schooled at home, what peers do you have? what more proof do you need of the plainly obvious?

homeschooling deprives children of peer contact. you can talk about pluses and minuses all you want, but disputing a simple truth just makes you look defensive and desperate

you seem to have a lot of gripes about people

[circletimessquare]

what any of those complaints have to do with homeschooling versus public schooling, i have no idea

that you think your various gripes with society have their root, somehow, in homeschooling versus public schooling reveals a malformed ability to understand cause and effect on your part. that you think homeschooling is somehow a solution to your complaints is, ironically, a better commentary than anything you have explicitly written about a lack of socialization

you have a low social iq: your ability to reason about the makeup of society and why it is so is not very bright