Facebook face-off: Student, suspended for blog rant, sues
by Jennifer Mooney Piedra
It was a Friday night, and Katherine Evans, a senior at Pembroke Pines Charter High, was fed up with her English teacher. To vent her frustrations, she logged onto Facebook and started typing. Two months later, Evans -- an honors student with no disciplinary problems -- was suspended for three days for cyberbullying and disruptive behavior, pulled out of her Advanced Placement classes and ''forced into lesser-weighted honors classes,'' according to a federal lawsuit filed on her behalf this week by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Miamia Herald, 12/10/2008