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Facebook Comment Leaves 2 Girls Suspended From Area High School
Facebook Comment Leaves 2 Girls Suspended From Area High School - Education News Story - KCTV Kansas City

OAK GROVE, Mo. -- School officials said two girls have been suspended because of what one of them posted on her Facebook page.

But the girl's parent said it's the issue is freedom of speech, regardless of what happened at school because of it.

Megan Wisemore, 15, admitted that she wrote some nasty things about another 15-year-old classmate. She called her names that KCTV5 won't repeat on the air or its Web site.

"It wasn't appropriate, but it was something for my husband and I to take care of at home," said Megan's mother, Christy Wisemore.

Wisemore said she never intended for the girl she was talking about to see it, but she did. The following day at Oak Grove High School, Wisemore said the girl jumped her.

"I never fought back," she said. "I just sat there and took it."

Both girls were suspended, according to Wiseman's mother. But she said Megan should not have been suspended for two days for her Facebook comments. She said it was her right to post what she wants.

"You can't suspend her for what she wrote on Facebook, it's wrong," Christy Wiseman said. "He (the principal) was like, 'I am.' She'll lose 3 percent of her grade. Tonight's a concert that's 75 percent of her grade and she'll get an F in band. Because of something she wrote on Facebook."

The principal at Oak Grove High did not return KCTV5's messages, but many school districts have a policy against cyber-bullying, when a person threatens, teases or embarrasses someone via the Internet or by cell phone. And if it becomes serious enough, schools will take action.

The Oak Grove School District superintendent said they don't police Facebook, but if something leads to a disruption at school, there will be consequences.
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any public school and also deaf school in 50 states not allowed have facebook dues have policy for facebook approves but supt nor school dist can banned facebook in school..Till you get out school for summer vacation or winter vacation would be OK! But Parents would watch kids using facebook everyday..
 
Yes that can get pretty bad. Some kids have killed themselves from the pressures of bullying.
 
It seems like the parents cant supervise their kids well nor discipline them so the schools have to take over. I am glad the school took action because bullying is a serious issue.
 
I really think it's time that Supreme Court takes action on this. For past few years - lot of high school students and workers have been disciplined for their activity in Facebook.
 
Let me get you guys into a little secret.

Before facebook even existed. Kids were being and still are be suspended for continuing discussing problems and continuing fighting after school hours.

The issue is being presented to the school for them to handle it due to the fact it STARTED on school grounds.

Can not blame FB. Or any social means of defamatory actions or threatening actions.

Schools are basing and covering their backsides because the initial problem started there.


That is where a lot of people misunderstand.

It is not about students having the freedom of speech.

It is a way for them to tell their peers they are going to woop someones ass!! And it takes it to the school system for them to handle it.
 
that is terrible not good for them. worst to bullied not good teens...
 
There's probably would be a children-proof all over on the internet in the future, which I am not very forward to..
 
The girl instigated and involved in fight at school. Sounds to me more like she was suspended for fighting, even if she "took it". It just so happend the fight started on Facebook and ended at school.
 
I think the school just should have said she got suspended for fighting, I think that's more of the focus of what happened. She was the instigator and when I got suspended for fighting in high school, my instigator got half the time I did.
 
Schools policing Facebook is crossing a line. When schools suspends you and bosses fires you for comments they don't like, that's impeding free speech rights.

The Supreme Court needs to step in and stop the erosion of our rights.

Yiz
 
yizuman said:
Schools policing Facebook is crossing a line. When schools suspends you and bosses fires you for comments they don't like, that's impeding free speech rights.

The Supreme Court needs to step in and stop the erosion of our rights.

Yiz
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The problem is that these are children and they abuse that right and bring that abuse to schools. If the parents would do their jobs, the schools wouldnt have to make these policies.
 
Young girl posted about another girl, making nasty remarks online.

That's bullying by way of slander, verbal abuse is bullying, it causes emotional situations to occur.

Mom is whining because her daughter posted on FB and her 'Freedom of Speech' rights are being taken away? It doesn't matter if she was suspended in school for fighting. What matters is this girl verbally trashed another online and wound up getting beat the next time she was in school. So no matter how you put it....the abuse did start on Facebook.

You abuse the right to Freedom of Speech.....suffer the consequences. Yes while we may have the right to Free Speech, using it as a reason, that it is okay to bully or to slander, consequences will occur. Would you go around saying that a murderer had the right to bear arms? If the consequence was that a human being was shot?

If my sons, either one of them, EVER does what this young girl did. They will lose thier privilages to use the internet. They will offer a public apology to the person or persons involved, and an apology to the parents of the person or persons involved. In fact, due to the number of pedo's and sex offenders popping up on FB, I doubt I will allow them to use FB.

I believe in THIS INSTANCE of suspension the school did the right thing. What started on FB ended on school grounds, and it is a bullying tactic to verbally abuse another student.

In fact, Facebook will erase your account if you are reported for abuse of their policy, sooo if her account is erased, will her mother complain that her rights were taken away, when at the same time, the young girl may have abused the policy of FB?
 
X2 to everything Shel has said. This is different from people getting fired or suspended from work for comments they make on FB. We are talking about MINORS here, children who have not yet reached maturity nor certain rights guaranteed by adulthood. This is not a matter of free speech, but of disciplining misbehaving kids. But I also agree that there is, at least none that I am aware of, no clear legal line drawn between the two, which is why the Supreme Court needs to step in and define the boundaries of cyberspace and reality in the educational system.

When students start bringing the outside world to school, the school has a right to make decisions based on those outside actions. I also agree with DJGrace. The school should have punished both kids on the grounds of fighting and left the FB part out of it. Even if the instigator didn't fight back, she is still at fault and should share punishment, regardless of where she instigated the event. The fight occurred on campus, and therefore, in the school's jurisdiction, and they are obligated to consider all the causes and factors of the fight, no matter where they originated.

Personally, I am just sickened by the "victim" trying to get sympathy here, or turn this into something that it is not (again, not a free speech issue!). Fact is, she's a mean little girl, and if she's going to make nasty comments about people, whether in real life or on the internet, she needs to be taught a lesson about dealing with the consequences of those comments. I have no sympathy for her.
 
yizuman said:
Schools policing Facebook is crossing a line. When schools suspends you and bosses fires you for comments they don't like, that's impeding free speech rights.

The Supreme Court needs to step in and stop the erosion of our rights.

Yiz
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Your rights end where mine begin.

A child also has the right not to be bullied and defamed. That should take precedence over freedom of speech. You do not have the right to yell "Fire" in a crowded building if it is not on fire.

It sickens me when I see people invoke "freedom of speech" to justify saying hateful and hurtful things.
 
shel90 said:
The problem is that these are children and they abuse that right and bring that abuse to schools. If the parents would do their jobs, the schools wouldnt have to make these policies.
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Yup, that's why even I police myself and I try to watch what I post on Facebook. Remember, if you don't want anyone to know about it, don't write it down anywhere.

I don't like the fact that it's no longer a free world to complete freedom of speech. You really do have to watch what you say, when you say it, and who might read or hear it. I have heard of people getting fired from their job based on a complaint they made about their employer on facebook. Students are also getting suspended from schools and universities for what they post on facebook. In some cases athletes may have lost their scholarships because they posted that they were doing illicit activities on facebook.
 
Dixie said:
Yup, that's why even I police myself and I try to watch what I post on Facebook. Remember, if you don't want anyone to know about it, don't write it down anywhere.

I don't like the fact that it's no longer a free world to complete freedom of speech. You really do have to watch what you say, when you say it, and who might read or hear it. I have heard of people getting fired from their job based on a complaint they made about their employer on facebook. Students are also getting suspended from schools and universities for what they post on facebook. In some cases athletes may have lost their scholarships because they posted that they were doing illicit activities on facebook.
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I have seen a few of my coworkers make nasty comments on FB about their jobs, coworkers or bosses. I just keep mum and stay out of it.
 
I agree with Alex. I really think the parents are using the Facebooking stuff as a scapegoat instead of accepting the fact that their child instigated the fight. She must have wrote some pretty bad stuff if it couldn't be published. Like I said, I got a four day suspension and my instigator got a 2 day suspension, doesn't matter what happened anyone involved got punished. I felt it was fair and no one had any complaints.

Athletes losing their scholarships for posting their own illicit activities on facebook is completely acceptable. They have to represent their school and maintain a proper image, and they are bound my contracts and curfews etc. If a school is footing your entire educational bill based on your athletic talents, you better be doing your best to follow the rules. It's something that elite athletes grow up with and deal with, and it will continue to translate into their professional careers. Even as a professional athete making lots of money, you still have to follow similar rules or you get fines etc.
 
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