Cheerleader Sues Over Facebook Privacy Invasion

From what I understand, she made a threat to fellow squad member. Pearl High had a school shooting before. They take threats very seriously. My child goes to that school, and I appreciate the faculty maintaining a safe environment. Why isn't anyone talking about her? She is as much at fault as anyone!

I talked with a reporter in this case. She told me that it was a rant between the two girls. I did not get the idea that a threat was involved. The school is hiding something for not coming out with the facts of this case. The whole country is looking at this small town and wondering if free speech is gone in our country. The girl was 14 at the time and it happened nearly 2 years ago. She has been shunned and made to feel like an outcast. Shunning and being kicked off the squad is major to a teen girl. My question is, if this happened between two boys on a football team and they had taken it out back and fought it out, would the same treatment have been issued? I'll bet my life on it, that nothing would have come of it. This is wrong on every level.

first of all the only people that should be allowed password to things like that should be the parents not a teacher or anyone else i know parents that monitor by having the password and others if they want to see sit down with thier child and have them open it without taking thier password for a teacher to assume they can basically exclude a parent from that decision and assuming thier job is wrong and if i was this girls parent i would be fuming over this teachers actions

TO SUSAN.....The faculty maintaining a safe environment dont give them the right to force a student to give up their password. Also if there was a genuine threat made why was the police not contacted instead of what they did. I bet if it were your child who was treated this way you would be making a completely different comment

Beau, it's time to grow up, or are you gonna stay a high school punk forever. What the hell do you know what it's like to try and make a living teaching pimple faced morons who think they know everything and don't have a clue.
Just how violated was this silly little heifer? Something tells me that what was in those emails wasn't the sweet poetry of a well brought up young lady and while we are on the subject of parenting just what lesson are the litigous parents teaching their little darling. When you get caught bitch and sue somebody to distract attention away from you?
I'll bet they're a couple of Libs who voted for you know who!

I wondered about that too.

I was wondering the exact same thing! I had an lol-moment when I saw this shoddy piece of "journalism" and a word that was hardly even in the ballpark. Seriously, AOL, if you're paying these people start demanding a little quality from them.

No, "disseminated" is a real word and the general meaning is that it was spread around, given out, talked about. "Decimated" means, essentially, to cause great harm to someone/thing. I'd suggest making sure you have the right vocabulary before you comment.

I also think it is strange that no one seems to think this girl should learn to exercise a little restraint and follow the general theme of the article -- guard carefully what you say, especially in cyberspace!

You had better review your facts in regards to word usage; disseminated = spread over a large body or mass ( such as a student population) , decimated = reduced by a significant proportion (specifically by a factor of ten). Check and understand a dictionary, not your inadequate education.

hey super jim this isnt a grammar situation .people are talking with ther fingers .when your talking do you pause and say comma ,peroid ,question mark.use some common sense people are talking here not writing.keep your eye on the ball

Couldn't of said it better myself!

You know, I feel the same as most, apparently, feel. HOWEVER. In THIS case, although logic would probably tell you different, I'm afraid the school would win. Under the laws of most states, schools operate under a different set of laws. Students have much less freedom than they experience in the 'outside world' because the law recognises the 'need' for the school to exert control over the behaviour of the student. The term is 'in loco parentis', or 'acting in the same capacity as a parent'. While it is true the Supreme Court has stated that a student's rights don't end at the school parking lot, the usual standard is that of maintaining discipline and a undisrupted learning environment. Why do you think one cannot wear shirts with certain logos or statements on them? The courts have found that that rule does not infringe on a student's free speach. What about the schools that now require uniforms? I am talking PUBLIC, not PRIVATE schools? I do NOT agree with these policies, but they ARE the policies and they are protected by 'in loco parentis'. If you have children and one of you friends told you 'You should see what little Mary wrote about you on her Face Book' do you think that as a parent, you would have the right to demand her password to check? Further, if your friend told you that little Mary was telling her friends on Face Book that she was pregnant, do you think you'd have the right to demand the password? Well, the school was acting 'in loco parentis'. I would imagine that each girl on that squad probably signed some sort of agreement (which, by itself would be unenforcable as I doubt that this student was over 18) stating they wouldn't do anything to bring disrepute on the program, which is, of course, up to the administration to decide.

I could not have said it any better. The school has no right to demand a student give them personal information such as a password. And to the person JIM you need to check your facts. Just because my child is a student dont mean that the school can do what ever it wants. This childs facebook account had nothing to do with the school whatsoever except that two students talked about their cheerleading squad. Yes the school has been granted a lot of latitude in things that happen at school such as searching lockers etc, but school officials dont have the right to search a students purse, search a student with a parent or police office present. And that sure dont have the right to demand a student give them her personal password and then use it and obtain information and then use that information. You must be a complete idiot. I would take my child out of school before I allowed school officials to have that much authority. BTW the correct procedure would have been for the school to contact the childs parents if that thought there were a problem and if there had been threat made the proper authorities should have been contacted. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO DEMAND A PERSONS PASSWORD NOT EVEN THE POLICE