This morning I heard that there is a Christian private school that is requesting that the students are required to give them their myspace and facebook passwords. They want to know what the students are doing outside of school hours. Apparently a student of this school got on his site and was bragging that he had gotten drunk. (He was not in school at the time) The school found out and now wants all the students to turn over all their information.
The parents were told that they had to make their children turn over the information or they could remove their children from the school. Excuse me, but I thought that passwords were the privacy of the holder. Why would the school need the password? The school can still check on their students without it. Isn't it the responsibility of the parents to monitor what the child does after school? Why is the school concerned about it?
My question is this. Do the adults, i.e. teachers, administrators, etc. ever have a drink? Are they perfect? Maybe they should have their jobs and we should monitor them like they are monitoring their students. We can not do that, however, because that would be invading their rights. What about the rights of the children? They are people too. Do they not deserve the same respect?
I do believe that if a child does show signs of trouble or gives off questionable behavior then we should step in. Until then what has happened to trusting the person until they give you reason to not trust them. If we keep on placing all these rules on kids (adults included...mmm, hmmm, gov't.!!!) they are going to fight against you harder. You set boundaries, break it, then yes, there is discipline.
I do not think that the school should have the right to the passwords of the students. The student did not threaten anyone, he/she did not hurt anyone, what harm was done? How do they even know if it was the truth?
Schools go overboard today. Don't give out the passwords. Pull your kids out of the school. The parents and students need to take a stand. FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS!
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