School Policy Prohibits Use Of MySpace Site at Home & School

Okay, this might anger some people, but...


First, tell the schools to shut the hell up.
What happens on campus is well within their jurisdiction, but what happens at home is none of their damn business.
Private school or not.

And in all seriousness, parents need to take a more active part in the raising of their kids.
Don't expect television or especially the internet to do it for you.
If that's too difficult, then don't reproduce.

If the child is under a certain age (say about 15 or so) then keep the computer in a common area of the house and do not, let me repeat that for you slow people, do not allow the kids to have absolute privacy with the computer.
Yes, this will irritate the kids, but damnit, you're the parent!
It's your responsibility, nay...your JOB to raise you child in such a way that they will, hopefully, become well-adjusted, contributing members of society.

But at any rate, yeah, no school has that "right" to exert any amount of control over it's students while they are home.
That is the parents right, and only the parents right.

Okay, yeah...I think I'm done now.

I agree with the previous poster and other comments made by JacKatMtn. The attitude here is that the schools are overstepping their boundaries and infringing on peoples rights. Problem is thats not the heart of the issue. It's a sad state of affairs when the school system has to invoke these measures because lets face it most parents are either too stupid or too lazy to maintain their own child's development and interests. If half the parents in society could get their proverbial you know what together maybe there wouldn't be a need for school systems to act. It's not about blocking these and other related sites its about educating, understanding and sharing in your children's growth.

Put simply this is a wake up call to the stupid.

brill

[edit on 25-3-2007 by brill]

Originally posted by enjoies05
Pretty soon these schools will start telling the kids when to go to bed, what to eat and all the things they can and can not do.

Turning the kids into robots who act and think like they want them to.

What do you think religion is really all about??

This is a religious school and as such they can place all kinds of strange requirements on their pupils and their families. If they don't agree they can take their $$'s and go elsewhere.

Originally posted by JacKatMtn
The courts recently ruled in favor of "freedom of speech", favoring pornographic sites rights when they should have thought about protecting the rights of our innocent children. The courts said that parents can simply add software filters to prevent their access, which is true at home but access to the internet is not limited to the home.

There has to be a bettter way to protect our children.

Without going into too much detail and trying not to derail from the topic at hand ... the courts are right. The "dirty" sites have a right to be there ... it's not my responsibility to make sure your children aren't exposed to an undesirable element ... that's yours.

These sites don't find you ... you have to go look for them. So if your innocent children are old enough to have the curosity to search out such sites they should know that it is not acceptable by your standards. This is no different than some kid getting ahold of their dad's dirty magazines or some kid getting a porno and showing it to a bunch of their friends. It's just a different media being used.

It doesn't surprise me that something this drastic has happened. In a world where parents aren't being parents, big surprise someone is actually doing something to try and keep children away from the virus that is MySpace.

I went to a private Jesuit high school and one of the conditions for continued enrollment was that the student could not act in an improper manner while wearing clothing with school logos, at any school function, or in any social situation where it was commonly known they were a student of the school.

This case is obviously more extreme, but again... big surprise. If the parents won't keep their kids away from this crap, someone else is going to at least try.

I still would encourage any parents that gives a damn to pull their kids from this school. It is entirely within the school's right, yes. But it still isn't something I would be comfortable participating in.