(Indiana) ACLU sues middle school over students' Facebook posts

[steve2470]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/story/2012-04-25/indiana-school-facebook-aclu/54537388/1

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has sued a Northern Indiana school that suspended three eighth-grade girls for Facebook posts violating bullying, harassment and intimidation rules.

"This conversation spanned numerous subjects, from the pain of cutting oneself while shaving to the girls' friendship, before turning to a discussion of which of their classmates they would kill if they had the chance," the suit continued. "At all times, the conversation was purely in jest and could not have been interpreted seriously, as is evidenced by the girls' repeated use of 'emoticons,' by their use of abbreviations indicative of humor, and by the nature and tone of the conversation.

"The girls were simply engaged in teenage banter."

"In late January, they engaged in a lengthy conversation on http://www.facebook.com — through the 'comments' section of one of their personal pages — after school from their personal computers," said the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Hammond.

[Justice wanted]

1. Did the conversations happen on school grounds? IF they did the school MAY have a fighting chance

BUT if this happened at the girls home on their personal time the school has NO RIGHT suspending them JUST like an Employers has no right firing an EMPLOYEE for saying something on that site!

[Riftaxe]

2. Silly, the fact that adults we trust do not see it so....

*yikes*...

Besides, courts would be full if we punished every 8th grade girl, who chose to be....unpleasant.

One of those sllly things which for the life of me i cannot attribute:

"girls compliment each other"
"boys insult each other"

Neither mean it, in the end.

fortunately my life would be much much less interesting without women who go against that grain