The People's Republic of Missouri has passed a breathtakingly stupid law designed to protect children from teacher sexual predators by preventing teachers from connecting with them on Facebook and other social networks.
According to the law, "Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child's legal Read More | Discuss
Julie Hilden has written an excellent legal analysis piece for Counterpunch.org that covers three recent MySpace suspensions. Hilden's advice:
"Off-campus speech shouldn't be the basis for suspension unless it violates civil law (as genuine defamation does), or criminal law (as true threats do)."
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A simple art project has turned controversial in Salinas, California after a student said her drawing of the American flag was deemed offensive, while another student's picture of President Obama was praised.
According to Superintendent Mike Bursa, voice mails say, "that we have violated that student's First Amendment rights and the so-called teacher needs to 'get the hell Read More | Discuss
