NJ student suspended over MySpace video
Mount Olive student suspended for postings on MySpace:
MOUNT OLIVE — A Mount Olive High School freshman has been suspended over the posting, on MySpace.com of a 15-second video recorded in a high school classroom.
The Mount Olive video was posted on the popular social networking Web site on March 6 by a user whose profile describes him as a 14-year-old from Flanders. The video caption explains that the clip features a substitute teacher’s reaction to a student who asked whether the substitute “does coke.”
Mount Olive schools Superintendent Rosalie Lamonte said on Thursday that Mount Olive High School Principal Kevin Stansberry received a tip about the video and investigated the matter.
Lamonte said the video contained nothing vulgar, but it is inappropriate for a student to take such a video clip and post it on a Web site like that “because it does compromise the integrity of the classroom.”
The student, who was not identified by the school district, served the first of a multiday suspension in school on Thursday. The remainder will be served out of school, said Lamonte, who did not specify the length of the suspension.
In the Mount Olive case, the substitute featured in the video was not aware that he was being recorded but subsequently was shown the clip by Stansberry, Lamonte said. The substitute opted to let school administrators handle the matter as they deemed appropriate, she added.
Filming people without their permission is bad M’kay?
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