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Associated Press News Wire (ap@telecom-digest.org) Tue, 23 May 2006 11:13:06 -0500
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High school students are going to be held accountable for what they post on blogs and on social-networking Web sites such as MySpace.com.
The board of Community High School District 128 voted unanimously on
The rule will take effect at the start of the next school year,
District officials won't regularly search students' sites, but will
Mary Greenberg of Lake Bluff, who has a son at Libertyville High
"I don't think they need to police what students are doing online,"
Associate Superintendent Prentiss Lea rebuffed that criticism.
"The concept that searching a blog site is an invasion of privacy is
The social networking Web site MySpace.com allows its nearly 80
District 128, in Lake County north of Chicago, has some 3,200
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