Teachers’ private postings may make waves in school

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5-8-2008 7:05 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bb811549-5fc0-4227-8aa7-bd0b84c7ef67/01374040-0AC3-416A-A742-77717ECD70E3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=19991" href="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=19991" style="font-size: 11px;">www.firstamendmentcenter.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=19991"><P>Free expression is an essential guarantee of the First Amendment — the 
freedom to speak and write as we will, without censorship by the government.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=19991"><P>But the freedom to express oneself doesn’t necessarily provide a buffer 
against the reaction to what is said or written. For public employees like 
schoolteachers, that’s increasingly an issue in the Internet Age, when 
off-campus postings easily reach the school community.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=19991"><P>Example: A recent <I>Washington Post</I> story that reported on area teachers 
who had placed personal material or photos on social-networking sites like 
Facebook. The article is headlined, “When Young Teachers Go Wild on the 
Web.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=19991"><P>The <I>Post</I>’s report might just pass as noting a titillating curiosity — 
if not for the potential pitfalls it and other news reports highlight for public 
school educators who might assume speech away from the workplace is protected by 
the First Amendment from on-the-job consequences.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/01374040-0AC3-416A-A742-77717ECD70E3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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