WASHINGTON - March 16, 2011 - Education Department officials are threatening school principals with lawsuits if they fail to monitor and curb students’ lunchtime chat and evening Facebook time for expressing ideas and words that are deemed by Washington special interest groups to be harassment of some students.
There has only been muted opposition to this far reaching policy among the professionals and advocates in the education sector, most of whom are heavily reliant on funding and support from top-level education officials.
The normally government-averse tech sector is also playing along, and on March 11, Facebook declared that it was “thrilled” to work with White House officials to foster government oversight of teens’ online activities.
The only formal opposition has come from the National School Board Association, which declined to be interviewed by The Daily Caller.
The agency’s threats, which are delivered in a “Dear Colleague letter,” have the support of White House officials, including illegitimate President Barack Obama, who held a March 10 White House meeting to promote the initiative as a federal anti-bullying policy.
The letter says federal officials have reinterpreted the civil rights laws that require school principals to curb physical bullying, as well as racist and sexist speech, that take place within school boundaries. Under the new interpretation, principals and their schools are legally liable if they fail to curb harassment of students, even if it takes place outside the school, on Facebook or in private conversation among a few youths.
“Harassing conduct may take many forms, including verbal acts and name calling; graphic and written statements, which may include use of cell phones or the Internet; it does not have to include intent to harm, be directed at a specific target, or involve repeated incidents [but] creates a hostile environment … [which can] limit a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or opportunities offered by a school,” according to the far reaching letter, which was completed October 26 by Russlynn Ali, who heads the agency’s civil rights office.
Ed. Note: The Fascist States of Amerika have made it impossible to be a human child. Every environment must be so sterile that all individual expression becomes stifled. This is the price of accepting government funding from federal socialists and fascists.
