My Way News - School District to Monitor Student Blogs

My Way News - School District to Monitor Student Blogs: "LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) - High school students are going to be held accountable for what they post on blogs and on social-networking Web sites such as MySpace.com. The board of Community High School District 128 voted unanimously on Monday to require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of 'illegal or inappropriate' behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for disciplinary action. The rule will take effect at the start of the next school year, officials said. District officials won't regularly search students' sites, but will monitor them if they get a worrisome tip from another student, a parent or a community member. Mary Greenberg of Lake Bluff, who has a son at Libertyville High School, argued the district is overstepping its bounds. 'I don't think they need to police what students are doing online,' she said. 'That's my job.' Associate Superintendent Prentiss Lea rebuffed that criticism. 'The concept that searching a blog site is an invasion of privacy is almost an oxymoron,' he said. 'It is called the World Wide Web.'" This guy I would call a poly-moron. This is pure harrassment and intimidation leading to real censorship. This one needs to go to court. I don't have a problem with people searching students' blogs, but as an official from the government, well this is what the first amendment is for.