Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post

ThPhox writes "A student in the Plainfield School District in New Jersey is facing expulsion from the school district for a post made on his personal blog during non school hours. From the article: "A 17-year-old student who posted on his blog site that he was being bullied and threatened by the Plainfield School District will face an expulsion hearing this week, a local attorney said.""

Re:Dumbasses

[Rob_Warwick]

In an unconfirmed report, the English teacher for this school has apologized saying that the school needed a better example of irony because the students just weren't getting it.

Re:Friendly piece of advice

[Romancer]

You're expelled.

Re:Friendly piece of advice

[4D6963]

He should get an AK-47 and shoot them into their filthy faces.

The worst is that I feel you

Re:Friendly piece of advice

[ArsenneLupin]

*Bang*
*Bang* *Bang*

That feels good!

Re:Free speech

[Admiral Justin]

Nah, Canada prefers to sit around and watch what america does wrong, then have part of itself try to split off again, because they are bored.

Re:Dumbasses

[cgenman]

"Not only are we teaching our students math, science, literature, and music, but we're also giving them experience with them the American legal system by inducing them to sue the F%$# out of us."

Re:Organizations behave like this...

[BakaHoushi]

The Freedom-Fighter in me wants to hug this girl for speaking the truth, but the English teacher in me wants to strangle her. I mean, seriously, mi instead of my? Is it really that hard to move your finger two keys over?

Re:Here's his website

[tehcyder]

they should send him to design classes

Or a fucking optician.

Re:Dumbasses

[illuminatedwax]

Reading the actual blog, it appears the English teachers there ain't teaching 'em shit.

Re:Organizations behave like this...

[OmnipotentEntity]

Ah... Now I know why they suspended him. Hell, I would have suspended him too. He has criminally bad web design.

Red Text on a mostly black background image is eye-bleedingly difficult to read. And when linked to by a high traffic site, it is considered a violation of the Geneva Convention as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

And the Metallica music embedded in the background is a sin before God and man and he should face the highest possible penalty.

Re:It's in IL, not NJ

[Anonymous Coward]

For once it isn't New Jersey school districts doing something stupid.

Harvard?

[GungaDan]

He need not write well. He just needs to learn to plagiarize.

Re:Organizations behave like this...

[ate50eggs]

swallow evil ride the sky, cross my heart and hope to die, i lose my self in a crowded room, you fool it will be here soon, it comes alive, and i die a little more, it comes alive and each moment here i die a little more, and then the unnamed feeling it comes alive, and the unnamed feeling its take me away...

so... wait. was he expelled for bad poetry?

Re:Dumbasses

[Roody Blashes]

AAAAAGH! You're forming a wormhole! Nooooooooooooo!

Re:Dumbasses

[Ohreally_factor]

But there's a significant difference in what [you] (allegedly) did and what this kid did. If you were involved at all with the posession or sale of marijuana, that is a criminal activity. What this kid did, writing down his vulgar, but non-threatening opinions of the school is not criminal. It is, in fact, constitutionally protected.

1. There is no significant difference. In both cases, the school is overstepping its bounds, involving itself in matters way beyond its purview.

1.a A rumor of criminal activity isn't sufficient for criminal conviction in a court of law. Why should it be sufficient for a school?

2. The Right to Party is protected by the Constitution. Please refer to the famous case Beastie Boys v. Your Mom [lyricsondemand.com], in which the Supreme Court ruled that your mom does not have the right to throw away your best porno mag.

Re:Dumbasses

[Anonymous Coward]

I think not putting your name on something is cowardly. If you want to say something, stand behind it and be prepared to accept consequences whether just or unjust. Otherwise, don't bother saying stuff. If you don't want to sign your name and stand behind what you say, think about whether it is it really worth saying and if it's really a good idea to say it.

I for one totally agree with your statement!

It's a paradox, all right!

[spun]

Isn't it ironic that a song entitled "Isn't it Ironic" contains no irony? But that makes it ironic, which means it does contain irony. Which means that it isn't ironic...

Re:Organizations behave like this...

[greg_barton]

Is it really that hard to move your finger two keys over?

Ys.

Re:It's a paradox, all right!

[grammar fascist]

Isn't it ironic that a song entitled "Isn't it Ironic" contains no irony? But that makes it ironic, which means it does contain irony. Which means that it isn't ironic...

If we were being attacked by malicious robots, you could tell them that to blow them up. I'm glad you're around.