Students and Blogs

The Christian Science Moniter reports:

This winter, teenagers at a Chicago high school used their Xanga websites to post obscene and threatening comments about a teacher, in one case suggesting her neck be "slit like a ... chicken."

Last spring, a girl at a different Chicago high school outraged students when she posted derogatory comments about gay marriage and blacks on her Web log.


The school district dealt differently with the two situations, defending the girl's freedom of speech in the latter while reportedly disciplining the three teens in the first.

The incidents speak not only to the murky territory of free speech in schools but to the challenges of educating in a cyber age - particularly with the growing presence of Web logs or blogs, those online pages that millions of teens use for journals, photos, dating, or chats.

This isn't an easy subject in public schools.In public schools the blogs really are the property of the state if the blog is on the school's server.So,we here at NewsAlert have a simply solution:get rid of public education.Then there will be no controversy how who's treated fair.