Warman17 said:My high school blocks these sites because it's "misuse of school property" and "school property is not to be used unless for school purposes" so in truth, these are school computers, they can block what they want. Civfanatics for example is listed under reasons why it's blocked as 'chat', there is also reasons sites areblocked because of 'media, adult, games' and prolly some other things.
What legal rights do I have in the State of New York to say that my school can't not allow me to go to sites of which have nothing to do with the educational process. The only possible part of this site i could remotly say is educational is the history foum.
stalin006 said:But by going to chat, you are denying another person the right to use that resource in what it was intended and paid by the peoples taxes, educational reasons.
Vis a vis Herr Skilord
SKILORD said:((, not whether or not I'm right, because I am))
SKILORD said:And by standing on a sidewalk I am denying other people resources that we as citizens have all paid for.
SKILORD said:by limiting to them use of services that they have fully paid for with their taxes is illegal according to the United States Constitution and the First Amendment thereof.
SKILORD said:Actually, about that case, I'd rather the Bill of Rights didn't apply to the states and that the states would be in charge of education, but that's not the way it is in real life, so my case stands.
no, that would be the equivalent of you using the computer for educational or school related purpuses. But using chats or non related sites would be like you blocking the sidewalk for others not to pass by.
It is not being limited, the service fully paid by the people is to provide internet access for schools for the reasons of its use for educational purpuses. I didnt paid the tax to see a teen download porn at school or chat w/ his friends.
Actually it is the state that is in charge of education (at least the ones i know of) for example in texas it is paid by property taxes in the state and decisions made by independent schoolborads. Also nowhere in the constitution says that the states has to be in charge, the state may well decide to have it under federal administration remaining entirely constitutional.
SKILORD said:Well lets say I use the sidewalk for something it wasn't intended for, let's say as a dance studio, and I'm out there getting my groove on and the rest of the citizenry cannot pass. I am excercising my right to freedom of speech..
SKILORD said:If you want to get into the reason that people are paying those taxes it is rater simple, it is because if they do not they will be punished. Few taxpayers care what the children they are so magnanimously bestowing the internet on use it for. .
SKILORD said:But the entire idea of 'purpose' for the school access of internet is flawed, and even if it weren't it would be pointless to even try to bring it up, you cannot prove conclusively that this posesses one purpose rather than others and as long as they exist, as publically funded services, they should not be used to infringe the student's right to express themselves or limited in a manner to limit the student's right to express themselves. This case works for chat rooms and forums, I would dare say that it does not give free licsense to examine internet pornography at schools and I could hardly even begin to criticise that as it would be a 9th Amendment issue and the court's ruled in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish that the ninth amendment doesn't really count. (they've done the same with the 4th, coincidentally). .
Tyrion said:Will awards be announced? I think Venezuela should get an awardWell for something. Maybe the best or most developed country. Hey i came all the way from the bottom to First Class.