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Middle School Suspends 20 for looking at offensive MySpace AT HOME

By Ozz
Some parents questioned whether the school overstepped its bounds by disciplining students for actions that occurred on personal computers, at home and after school hours.

- Over dramatization at its finest. In recent months MySpace has been under a ridiculous amount of fire due to the sudden influx of teens to the site. The majority of the hype behind MySpace is due to the media's unhealthy ability to choose a target and stick withit until everyone including themselves get sick of it.

I must admit when I first heard this story I thought it may have been a Mass. school. LOL (ref. 6 year old sex assault story), but I was wrong it was in Calif. The question I have is what would've happened if they showed the page ont he news, and every student ended up viewing it? Would the whole school get suspended?

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1 comment so far.

  1. Joe Friday, March 03, 2006 12:53:00 PM
    While I agree with most of your thoughts, I'll just reiterate my reply to you in the Digg comments (And I mean no offense there or here). These kids were invited to and accepted an invitation to a group advocating hatred and violence towards another kid. The TV news isn't an 'invite only' service, so the two comaparisons just aren't the same. Had these kids stumbled across the MySpace group on accident, I'm sure the outcome would have been much different.

    I do agree about MySpace though. It's getting WAY too much hype for what it is.

    -Joe

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