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Re: Schools Prohibit Personal E-mail Sites

mc (mc_no_spam@uga.edu)
Fri, 3 Jun 2005 01:37:18 -0400

Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in message
news:telecom24.246.9@telecom-digest.org:

> Lisa Hancock wrote:

>> I don't see why this is a big deal. It's the school's computers and
>> they should be able to regulate them any way they choose. It's no
>> different from the workplace where an employer dictates what can and
>> cannot be done on his computers.

> Not completely true. Private employers don't have to worry about First
> Amendment issues; public school districts do. However, there are
> probably ways to avoid those issues.

That is another advantage of private schools. Everybody is there
voluntarily.

I'm not sure education is really *possible* in a government
institution that is compelled to be neutral on every moral and
political controversy. It is certainly often an odd experience, as
this story shows.

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