Schools are taking on a new role By choosing to peruse their students myspace pages looking for illegal activity. Frankly if I were a student in this school system I would want to arrange a myspace offensive where everyone posted that they were doing illegal things. Just to lay down too much noise for the school district to deal with.
This is silly. If anything the school should simply forward any 'evidence' they find to the proper authorities. If and I stress IF that bears any fruit in terms of legal action then after they are determined guilty by due process of law they can then be subject to appropriate measures of school discipline. Not before. Not During. Not even if the courts find them innocent but the schools do not agree. That is not their job. It be nice if school systems started paying more attention to actually educating their students rather than trying to police them.
There is this seemingly little honored concept of innocent until proven guilty. Perhaps the New Jersey school system has heard of it? It is sort of a keystone of US Jurice Prudence.
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