K12> [WWWEDU] School Board: Teacher's Personal Website is Grounds for Dismissal (fwd)
- From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 09:15:58 -0500
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From: Andy Carvin <acarvin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:54:09 -0400
Subject: [WWWEDU] School Board: Teacher's Personal Website is Grounds for
Dismissal
>From today's Benton headlines... -ac
SCHOOL BOARD: TEACHER'S PERSONAL WEBSITE IS GROUNDS FOR DISMISSAL
An online free speech controversy is brewing in Pennsylvania, where the
Grove City Area School District has suspended a local music teacher because
of the content of a personal website he developed before his employment. The
teacher, Dan Konnen, created a website that included a collection of
off-color jokes. Konnen never showed the website to students or talked about
it at school. Nonetheless, the district says it is considering dismissing
him on the grounds of "immorality, incompetence, intemperance, persistent
negligence," among other complaints. The district, however, may find itself
embroiled in a larger First Amendment fight: to date, numerous students
around the US have successfully forced schools to rescind punishments that
were meted out because of personal websites created off-campus. In some
cases, schools have had to pay the student compensatory damages. Whether or
not a similar outcome would occur when the webmaster in question is a
teacher rather than a student, though, remains to be seen.
[SOURCE: eSchoolNews; AUTHOR: eSN staff and wire reports]
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/ssunreg.cfm?ArticleID=4374&ul=%2Fnews%2Fshow
Story%2Ecfm%3FArticleID%3D4374
Judge for yourself -- Dan Konnen's website:
http://www.geocities.com/d_konnen/index2.html
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Andy Carvin
Senior Associate
Benton Foundation
acarvin@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.benton.org
http://www.digitalopportunity.org
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org
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ADMINISTRATORS NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS LEGAL
Does you District Internet Use Policy have provisions addressing
disclosure of student personal information on your school site? It should.
Do you know the difference between free speech rights
(including expressing viewpoints that administrators and teachers
may not like) and free speech wrongs (ex: defamation, harassment)
and are able to teach your student? You should.
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/admin2.html>
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