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Student's Expulsion Feeds Debate On Online Rights

NASHVILLE -- The expulsion of a high school basketball player who posted angry messages on Facebook highlights a growing debate over students' privacy and free-speech rights online. Taylor Cummings, 17, a senior at Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School, had been butting heads with his coaches. He logged onto Facebook at home on Jan. 3 and wrote, among other things, "I'ma kill em all." He was suspended the next day and expelled Jan. 14, Cummings and his family say. School officials decline to discuss the case but say they have suspended and expelled students in the past for infractions that involved social networks, text messaging, e-mail and other technologies.
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Posted by Editor at February 3, 2010 02:48 AM