Schools grapple with policing students' online journals

Sci/Tech > Computers & Technology from the February 02, 2006 edition
Schools grapple with policing students' online journals
By Amanda Paulson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CHICAGO – This winter, teenagers at a Chicago high school used their Xanga websites to post obscene and threatening comments about a teacher, in one case suggesting her neck be "slit like a ... chicken."
Last spring, a girl at a different Chicago high school outraged students when she posted derogatory comments about gay marriage and blacks on her Web log.