“Yes my kid did something REALLY wrong, but you can’t punish them for it.” Boy I wonder where the kids got their morals and ethics? $hitty parents = $hitty kids.

Tough call on that. It’s a free country…people are allowed to speak out against whomever they want in a public forum…it happens all the time regardless of weather we like it or not. We have the freedom to express ourselves freely…and people like the Phelps clan have the freedom to express themselves vilely.

BUT…the parent in me says that what they did was dumb. DUMB DUMB DUMB. It’s one thing to call your teacher and asshat on Facebook….totally different when calling names like pedophile and rapist. It’s unfortunate that these honor school students had a momentary lapse of reason that allowed them to post such stupidity and I hope that some sort of resolution came come about that doesn’t completely screw up their college plans…still parents need to teach their kids a little restraint.

Which brings me to ask: what sparked such commentary? Bad grade? Pressure? Hard time from the teacher? Not that it matters…my kid’s had a few knee-jerk reactions to various teachers that have caused her problems…you reap what you sow.

The Parents comment on about Privacy is very stupid, how can it be private, yet public at the same time. And please don’t even try to link it to Free Speech, it’s not, it’s a slander a grave accusation. By the way, is calling someone Bipolar more severe than calling him a rapist and a pedophile. They should all have been expelled at the same time.

I miss the old version of Facebook. You know, where only certain college universities were allowed access. It’s turned into a cesspool of drunk photos, mean insults and political ramblings.

I would sue the parents for defamation of character, after all parents are still responsible for their brats, until the legal age of young adulthood.

And the student should issue an apology, to the teacher at a student assembly in the school.

If the parents have the money send this young man to a very structured academy until he graduates from high school. They should also pay damages as determined by a court of law. He reminds me of the American teenager who was caned in Singapore. Some youth act like mafioso and their parents and the community cannot be trusted to train, educate, and inculcate a sense of self and selflessness.

It’s a malicious, ugly insult and false accusation made by these kids, and they should have their Facebook accounts deleted. Better still, they should have their internet access taken away indefinitely. They weren’t throwing out simply petty “My teacher sucks” comments out there, they went a lot further and the punishment should fit the gravity of the crime.

If the parents are defending the detestable actions of these kids, they should pay damages. If they are upset with what their kids did, then don’t blame them for the self-absorbed, malicious actions of their children. I wouldn’t compair these kids with Michel Fay who got caned in Singapore. He was out of control, yes, he did something he shouldn’t have. But Singapore is a horrible place where they carry out barbaric punishments for so much as breathing the wrong way at the wrong time. Fay did not deserve to get caned, no one but the worst deserve that sort of punishment. Fay didn’t think. These kids, on the other hand, by coming up with this heinous accusation, clearly demonstrated they were thinking a great deal, to come up with the evilist plan against a teacher, one they knew full well would damage the teacher’s reputation and spirit. That it would also cause that teacher’s family severe stress as well made no never-mind to these evil brats, obviously the more people they could cause to suffer, the more these brats like it.

“thinking” is relative. teens rarely think about their actions or consequences…especially when they’re from well-to-do families who can hire a lawyer to get them out of a DUI drug offense. But I fully believe that they’re in the wrong and need to pay the price….and it should start with a public apology on FaceBook…viewable by everyone and not just the teacher, staff and school admin. Humble those kids, I say.

Off topic but I think Fay got what was coming to him. And he still turned out to have drug and legal issues after the fact. Sorry, you don’t go to a foreign country, break the law and think you can just walk away with a warning because mom and dad have money.

This willingness to blame parents for all that is wrong with their children is baseless in fact. Many suffer from both genetic and social issues unrelated to the family structure. A study of the adopted in Norway indicated that genetics plays plays a role in who is a sociopath and there is a mini brain surgery to stop sociopathy that has had some success.

what about free speech? remember the pussy supreme court decision on westboro church. no matter how offensive…

Blame what parents? Parents dont exit anymore. Children are raised in a vacuum of television, video games, and and endless communication with peers. Good manners, propriety, and respect have been declining in recent generations.

Dysanthrope said:
what about free speech? remember the pussy supreme court decision on westboro church. no matter how offensive…

Again, there’s a big difference between calling a teacher a “big fat doodie head” and calling him/her something that would invoke a knee-jerk reaction….such as pedophile. That’s not exactly a word that a rational adult casually combs over and thinks “oh, how so Bart Simpson-ish of my kid to say such a thing. Tee hee.”