For my project, I am going to be reasearching teachers who have a myspace account and their privacy rights. How much authority should school officials have in monitoring teachers non-school affiliated websites over the internet? Is this a violation of the First Amendment? I want to take a look at different situations where teachers have been found on myspace and the consequences they faced or potentially can face.
Purpose: I want to show that teachers should not be monitered over the Internet for information that is not school affiliated. If teachers and students are not friends on myspace, they should not be getting into trouble for what is posted on their sites. I understand they are role models for students, but if the students do not have access to their page, I feel they should be able to use a social network to connect with their friends, if it has no connection to their job.
List of information: So far, I have came across different cases where teachers either lost their job or face charges due to their myspace. There was a 52 yr. old gym teacher named John Bush who got in trouble for having an "inappropriate" (not pornographic) photograph of himself on myspace. The definition of "inappropriate" is up to the discretion of the school board and administration. There was also another case where a student was given an English degree instead of a teaching degree due to her "unprofessional" myspace photo.
Sources:
http://personalweb.about.com/b/2006/04/04/teacher-investigated.htm
http://itwire.com.content/view/11772/53/
www.eschoolnews.com
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