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    timcurtinJay Hathaway
    1/21/15 11:18am

    anyone else think the anti-bullying movement is ridiculous? it's like the parents that are constantly putting hand sanitizer on their kids.

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      burlivesleftnuttimcurtin
      1/21/15 11:44am

      Says someone who apparently was never terrified going to school each day.

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      timcurtinburlivesleftnut
      1/21/15 11:46am

      wrong!

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    gramercypoliceJay Hathaway
    1/21/15 11:03am

    If your password is "ImGoingToKillEvery1NextFriday$", like mine is, it seems like the social media experts at the school board might misinterpret it. Which would be unfortunate because I'm not actually killing everyone next Friday.

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      ThePriceisWronggramercypolice
      1/21/15 11:25am

      Only the special snowflakes... but I could see how it could be misinterpreted.

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    RussianistJay Hathaway
    1/21/15 11:07am

    In defence of school administrators, where would tin-pot authoritarians who wanted a career in education go if this career track didn't exist.

    Also, as a rule of thumb, whenever someone justifies a new law on Internet use or access on the basis of "for the chillllddddrrrennnn!" you can assume it will only damage the Internet to the benefit of the surveillance state and/or the telcos and cablecos.

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      GlutenFreeRussianist
      1/21/15 11:19am

      So, school admin jobs are kind of a make-work program for budding Mussolinis to keep them off the streets?

      I'm fine with that.

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    TraceJay Hathaway
    1/21/15 11:14am

    And schools continue to show they actually have no idea how to combat /anything/ without going insanely overboard. Good to know that's a trend that's probably never going to end or actually fix the problems they're trying to fix.

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      Fleet Admiral JoshTrace
      1/21/15 11:25am

      While I'm not really a fan of tort reform, I think the fact that schools see themselves to being open to getting sued unless they do everything conceivable to stop things from happening drives many of them to do stuff like this. Or else some parent somewhere is going to have a kid commit suicide, see they were cyber-bullied, and then sue the school for "not doing enough" about it.

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      TraceFleet Admiral Josh
      1/21/15 11:35am

      The thing is, it's extremely depressing they worry more about being sued than trying to do anything that will be meaningful in helping people who are being bullied. All this will do is make any bullies find ways to circumvent this stupid shit. Do you know how easy it is to make a burner account and anonymously attack someone? Because if I, an adult, know how easy it is, a kid who grew up in the internet age sure as hell knows how to do it. There's a clear inherent lack of understanding on how online bullying works with this kind of action is all I am saying, just like there's an obvious inherent lack of understanding when they started the 'no exceptions, no mercy' mindset in terms of school violence and how to combat it.

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    TRUMP DELENDUS EST (fka Chatham Harrison)Jay Hathaway
    1/21/15 11:10am

    If this law makes sense, then school districts must also be permitted to search students' bedrooms. Not even the police can demand access to private data without a warrant or subpoena (or a an official request to your ISP, thanks PATRIOT Act!) This is bad law, and I hope the courts recognize that and throw it out.

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      spidersgeorgJay Hathaway
      1/21/15 11:20am

      I figured out towards the end of my time at high school that the school must've had some weird access/surveillance on our accounts. It was the time of gossip girl, so of course some idiot made a gossip girl account and started releasing information. The school went nuts and decided it was their sole responsibility to investigate and crack down. In one of my classes we had some free time, and were so entertained with the staff scrambling round, we decided to create a mock second gossip girl account as a huge joke and post funny shit that no one was taking seriously. Within 10 minutes our deputy principal was running around classrooms trying to find who did it. The fact it was a religious school probably had something to do with that, as they also called the parents of a student who changed her relationship status to 'engaged' with her boyfriend and a joke and told them to take it off immediately.

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