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Monday, June 05, 2006

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- How much space to give MySpace users?

This article discusses the complexity of the MySpace problem- particularly examining the role of school and school officials in the monitoring of MySpace and other social networking sites. Some schools have made news by their reactions to postings students made outside of school grounds/hours- examples in this article include phone calls to parents regarding pictures of middle school girls posing suggestively in their underwear and coaches benching their students after finding evidence of drugs or drinking online. Should schools be using these sites to monitor the behavior of their students? If they act in response to an inappropriate posting, are they infringing on the students' first amendment rights?

Actions taken by school vary from district to district and different people will have different reactions to this type of school involvement. However, even with these variable factors there is a clear answer- parents must be involved in their kids lives and know what they're doing online. If you're not looking at their page or talking to them about it, you can be sure that someone else is.

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