A few weeks ago I had a conversation with a current Jesup High School student about partying, Facebook, & what the school’s been doing lately. Students frequently use Facebook while at school, which is no surprise – more used MySpace when I attended, but it just makes sense that they would be logging in to social networks while on the computers. It’s been too easy to get past filters in the past and I’m not sure they’re even filtering Facebook – they wern’t when I was there.
Unfortunately the school’s been tracking the browsing habits of some and actually penalizing students for being in images of a party that is obviously in progress. Regardless of whether you think this is right or wrong, it’s happening. Which leads us to this video and the article after the jump from MSNBC…