School's Job Is Text Books, Not Facebook, Say Readers Maybe the Brewer High School Officials Should Dust of the Ol' Lesson Plan On the First Amendment. To See Additional Comments or Add Your Own, Go to Bangordailynews.Com and Look for Clickback On the Op

Bangor Daily News › March 05, 2010

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This week, ClickBack sought editorial page reader comments on the need for school closures and how Brewer High School handled the comments posted by students on Facebook. The school concluded the comments were a form of cyber-bullying, and suspended three students.

Should Brewer High School have suspended students for their Facebook comments?

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School's Job Is Text Books, Not Facebook, Say Readers Maybe the Brewer High School Officials Should Dust of the Ol' Lesson Plan On the First Amendment. To See Additional Comments or Add Your Own, Go to Bangordailynews.Com and Look for Clickback On the Op

This should have been seen as a "teachable moment," not an opportunity to flex zero-tolerance muscle. I'm sure the three students are duly sha...

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