Thursday, December 20, 2007

Students not Allowed to Hate Teachers in Canada

No free speech in Canada again:

"Facebook strikes again. Comments posted on the popular social networking site deemed racist and extremely inappropriate about Jiai Cho, a vice-principal at Chilliwack secondary school, have led to one student being removed from the school, and several others reprimanded.

However, a rumour that made its way to the Chilliwack Times office regarding as many as 200 students being expelled from CSS over the latest Facebook incident was completely false, according to principal Brett Lawrason.

"What happened is there was a Facebook page set up that was very inappropriate," Lawrason told the Times yesterday. "It was racial and sexual and . . . I was a miner for five years and there were things on there I would never say. It was just totally inappropriate."

The student who set up the Facebook group "I hate Mrs. Cho" was not expelled from the school, but was referred to the school district, according to Lawrason, and he is now attending Sardis secondary. Many other students who wrote some of the comments on the site have been spoken to and have met with "basic discipline."

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That some students hate their teachers would once have been taken for granted.