May 26, 2006

School tries to expell student for blog contents

Student faces expulsion for Web post
The student's mother said the district suspended her son for 10 days for inappropriate comments and vague threats. She thinks the school is overreacting. "I asked, 'If this is such a serious threat, did you call the FBI?' They said, 'No, we don't have time for this.' I asked, 'Did you call the Joliet police?' and they said, 'no.'"

Schools these days scare me. There are innumerable cases of schoold suspending or expelling kids for non-school activities and it just seems to be getting worse. This article doesn't point to the students blog but it does indicate that the student did NOT threaten violent behavior or in anyway organizing against the school. IT appears he simple expressed negative opinions about the school in a general way.

Posted by pqbon at May 26, 2006 2:42 PM