A Roman Catholic High School Principal has told all his students that unless they delete all blogs, regardless of where they were created or maintained, they face suspension.  Just so you know up front, as this is a private school, they can do that.

The purported reason is to protect the students.  But is that not the purview of the parents after school hours?  really!  Let's get serious.  If the parents dont mind the children keeping a blog on a blog site, what is it the school's and this Man's responsibility?

We know that there are pedophiles out there, and indeed, I have one in my neighborhood.  So it is not like my kids need to blog for some slimeball to find them.  And the Internet does make somethings easier.

Case in point.  We had a runaway 17 year old girl here.  She met a guy, who pretended to be a 12 year old boy, online and ran off with a 57 year old man!  Ok, that one stinks, and she is back home and safe and he is in custody.  But if her parents were monitoring her online activity, it would never have happened.  And that is not hard, or expensive to do!

And while parents are abrogating rights to schools daily on their responsibilities, when the parents say they will take it, what right has another to say "not good enough".

But back to the opening paragraph.  Like the School in Californian that kicked a student out because his mother was in a lesbian relationship with another woman (no! really it was a man!), private schools make the rules.  And you dont have to like them, but if your child is going there, you have to live with them.

I dont like these rules by this principal.  And my children would not go there.  Unfortunately, many parents are totally clueless and will accept it.  Why?  Because they dont take the time to be more than caretakers.

We reap what we sow.  I am glad I have such safeguards on my children's computers.  And will not tolerate parental interferance from some wrong, if well meaning, educators.