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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Austin Carroll, Indiana High School Student,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:58:45 -0700
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Austin Carroll, Indiana High School Student, Expelled For Tweeting Profanity
http://j.mp/HjTqaS (Huffington)
"An Indiana high school senior has been expelled for a Tweet he says
was posted from home on his personal account."
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A bit more detail: Apparently he used a school computer at home, using
his own Twitter account. But the computer was configured to proxy
through the school's network. In any case, expelling a student for a
single tweet like this is (expletive) ridiculous. Schools and their
inane zero-tolerance policies are *teaching* kids how to act like
overreacting idiots and bullies -- by example!
--Lauren--
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