FaceBook information be grounds for school suspension?

This is the news article from USA.

The internet often seems like a world of its own, separated from the realities and rules of everyday life. Yet the internet world and reality are beginning to increasingly collide. School districts across the country have begun to punish students for the material that they publish online. Schools are correct for punishing students for online activities like character defamation of teachers and posting pictures of themselves engaging in illegal activities. Schools must teach students the hard way that wrong actions should be punished no matter where they occur.

Boundary
In 2007, a girl was suspended and placed into a lower level class after creating a Facebook group that declared that her teacher was "the worst person ever." The school viewed the group as a personal attack against the teacher and labeled it as cyber-bullying despite the lack of threats or profanity used on the group’s page. The student sued the school claiming that she was expressing her freedom of speech and that she created the group off school property and not during school hours.

This raises the issue, what is the extent of a school system’s control over student free speech? Currently, there are no Supreme Court cases declaring the boundaries of schools’ control over free speech on the internet, which historically speaking is a relatively new form of communication and expression.

A school’s ability to limit their students’ freedom of speech should be very restricted. Students have a right to express their feelings about the school, and the school should not interfere or punish the students for such expression. It is not possible for a school to have a vast and omnipotent control of what students post on the internet about themselves or others, and rightly so.

The boundaries of school control should be limited to and only to that of the school. There is no reason for schools to attempt to regulate what is clearly out of their scope of practice unless material posted online poses a direct threat to students or occurs on school property.
A school does not have jurisdiction about what goes on outside of school. Schools are not agents of the law. If a teacher does not like what someone posts online, they should go through legal channels to easily solve an often all too over complicated problem. Allow for the legal system to do what it does best which at the same time removes the biased and unbalanced enforcement of school policies and the issue of where the school’s boundaries of enforcement lie.

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