ACLU wins case against school for forcing sixth-grader to give up Facebook password

The Daily Caller reports:

The American Civil Liberties Union won a $70,000 settlement from a Minnesota school district this week after school officials forced a sixth-grade student to give up her Facebook password and let them search her account.

“I was in tears,” Riley Stratton of Glenwood Minnesota told the StarTribune. “I was embarrassed when they made me give over my password.”

The Minnewaska Area School district suspended Stratton for a Facebook post — published outside of school — in which she said she hated a school hall monitor for “being mean.” Stratton then went back on the social media site and asked which of her connections ratted her out.

Public education really is a bad idea.