Comment Re:Difference between on-campus and off- publicati (Score 1) 7
On the other hand, if the school provides student home pages, and one student uses it to have disfavorable gossip about the school, I do think the school has a right to step in and censor it, under this ruling.
I agree with this. The high school I went to offers accounts (incl. webpages) to students who request them, but have reasonable limits on what they're allowed to put up on such a page. For example, they're not allowed to put up anything that could possibly be construed as porn. One of the teachers is required to monitor the sites that go up on the school's domain, and the whole system seems to work out rather well. There are no specific rules about defamation of the school (is that the right word?), but if a student were offending others, the supervising teacher has the right to delete the webpage or require the student to take the information off of the webpage.
However, I find it rather disturbing that schools are able to sensor what students do outside of school. If a student has a webpage that is NOT related to the school, the only one(s) who should have a say in the webpage content is the host (most of the free webservers have restrictions on what their pages can be used for, though they are not moderated too closely). Just my $.02.
I agree with this. The high school I went to offers accounts (incl. webpages) to students who request them, but have reasonable limits on what they're allowed to put up on such a page. For example, they're not allowed to put up anything that could possibly be construed as porn. One of the teachers is required to monitor the sites that go up on the school's domain, and the whole system seems to work out rather well. There are no specific rules about defamation of the school (is that the right word?), but if a student were offending others, the supervising teacher has the right to delete the webpage or require the student to take the information off of the webpage.
However, I find it rather disturbing that schools are able to sensor what students do outside of school. If a student has a webpage that is NOT related to the school, the only one(s) who should have a say in the webpage content is the host (most of the free webservers have restrictions on what their pages can be used for, though they are not moderated too closely). Just my $.02.
