Student suspended for tweeting that school sports teams were bad

[deviantfantasy]

A high school student in Wichita, Kansas, was suspended for the rest of the school year after tweeting a mild criticism of the school sports programs

Comments

[ducttapeninja]

This infuriates me more than I first realized it would.

When students make comments online making disgusting jabs at, for example, their classmates' appearance/sexual abuse/etc. and, y'know, actually harassing them, that is never a problem-- not just with this schoolboard, but ANY schoolboard just about anywhere-- and in fact most make up some excuse for why they shouldn't do anything like "We can't police what people say online because we can't prove it happened on school grounds" (as was often the case at the schools I attended, anyway)

But someone criticizes the sports team on Twitter? THIS IS CLEARLY CYBERBULLYING MEANT TO RILE UP OUR ATHLETES AND HURT THEIR FEELINGS, THIS PERSON IS BEING SUSPENDED.

You are FUCKING joking me. This is absolute bullshit.

::edited for clarification::

[seishin]

This. Right here.

[tabaqui]

THIS THIS THIS.

[otana]

MTE

[zinnia_rose]

A+ comment.

[silmaril]

You have taken all my twitching at this entry and converted it into excellent words, thank you.

[fluteaphrael]

What you just said, this. Yes.

[kittenmommy]

Thank you for summing up my thoughts much more coherently and eloquently than I could have managed at the moment.