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29 Aug 10
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A Connecticut high-school teacher went too far in trying to get on the same level as his students by communicating with them on his MySpace page, a judge has ruled in upholding the school's decision to terminate him.
U.S. District Judge Dominic J. Squatrito singled out an exchange in which one student told the teacher, Jeffrey Spanierman, “Don't be jealous cuase [sic] you can't get any,” and Spanierman replied,What makes you think I want any? I’m not jealous. I just like to have fun and goof on you guys. If you don’t like it. Kiss my brass!
“[I]t appears that the Plaintiff would communicate with students as if he were their peer, not their teacher,” Squatrito said in dismissing Spanierman's wrongful termination case. “Such conduct could very well disrupt the learning atmosphere of a school, which sufficiently outweighs the value of Plaintiff’s MySpace speech.”
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But Squatrito said “it was not unreasonable for the Defendants to find that the Plaintiff’s conduct on MySpace was disruptive to school activities.”
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