Perry Township School Board under fire–but should they be?
The Perry Township School Board in Marion County has faced already several allegations about the way they handled the indefinite suspension of H. Douglas Williams, but now they face another battle–and this time it’s on a different playing field.
A federal lawsuit has been filed against the school board for blocking two internet sites from their school’s computer accessibility, one that is www.takebackperryschools.com and www.wesupportwilliams.com. Obviously, these are against what the school board has done with this situation, and the groups that run this claim that it is discriminating against their right to free speech.
While I am sure some people are thinking that the move made by the school board is, well, bluntly, childish, I am really kind of at a loss why the groups running these sites believe that the claim is really worth the effort of defending their constitutional rights. Let’s think about this for a second: the government does have leeway in declaring what sites are termed as offensive and against the law according to the constitution, and shuts them down appropriately. However, as we all know, there are questionable sites out there that could be lewd, crude, and downright nasty–but they still exist. Essentially, what the groups are saying is that by blocking these sites, that they offend their right to this free speech and being available via Perry Township’s internet access. But, if this is the case, shouldn’t they have the right to be viewing porn sites that also have that free speech? Shouldn’t they have the ability to look at hate groups that have a right to say what they want to say?
According to the logic these groups are using, the answer is yes. But again, that is a ludicrous notion–because as we also know, businesses and schools have their own policies about acceptable internet usage–which is their right as well to dictate such policy. While it may seem like schoolyard shenanigans and sour grapes that the school board is thumbing their nose to by not allowing the sites available to anyone using their access, they do have the ability to make this decision.
To those groups “rounding up the wagons” against the school board, is your time really best served filing a lawsuit that is really just another form of tattling, or if you believe in your cause, couldn’t you be using other ways to try to get your message out? Seems like a lot of wasted time to me….
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July 10th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I’m the individual responsible for setting up the two websites in question in this federal lawsuit. While it’s not every day that something you’re responsible for creating is part of a federal 1st Amendment Right hearing, this is not the attention I would prefer to pursue in these efforts. Our group, TBPS, is in no way behind the lawsuit against the school board in this matter. I believe the biggest reason for the suit is that it’s another valid illustration of how this school board believes they can run over their own by-laws, national laws (they’ve violated various citizen’s rights to free speech), as well as a Federal Judge’s order against one of their members.
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