Social Media 6

Recently Garrett high school in Indiana has taken discipline to a new level, that level being taking disciplinary actions based on what a student posts on a social media network. This high school has expelled a senior for swearing on his Twitter account during what seemed to be after school hours. The tweet that got Austin Carroll kicked out of high school with just about three months of school remaining went as follows,"F*** is one of those F****** words you can F****** put anywhere in a F****** sentence and it still F****** makes sense.” The school claims the student used a school owned computer to post the tweet and kicked him out. The former high school senior, Austin Carroll was interviewed by Indian's News Center and said this, "If my account is on my own personal account, I don’t think the school or anybody should be looking at it. Because it’s my own personal stuff and it’s none of their business”.  The school's principal claims that their computers system tracks every tweet a student sends when they log into Twitter using the schools computers. Also that if he tweeted the comments posted above from a computer at his home and logged onto a computer at school again the system would retrieve all of his tweets no matter when it was sent from. Some may argue that this students first amendments were violated while others will side with the schools actions. I feel that schools should not be allowed to take a persons social life and punish them for it regardless if it the tweet was posted on school computer or not.