Mom sues school over MySpace
School Blamed for Daughter’s Internet Liaison:
(Honeoye, N.Y.) AP - Luann Waden recently filed a notice of claim that she plans to sue the Honeoye Central School District.
She blames the school district after her daughter ran off with a guy she met online.
Waden said she made clear on a consent form at the start of the school year that her 15-year-old daughter was not to be allowed Internet access. But the girl used the school computers to access the Web site MySpace.com, where she met 18-year-old Michael Macbeth.
In March, the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office arrested Macbeth on charges of endangering the welfare of a child after he picked up the girl at Honeoye High School.
The school attorney wouldn’t comment about the allegations.
It sounds like the school needs a better IT department. And it sounds like the mom is suing the school rather than dealing with her own issues.
10 opinions for Mom sues school over MySpace
Magnolia
May 31, 2006 at 1:19 pm
I think the school should counter sue the mom…for raising such a brat and allowing her to mingle with other students. ;-)
Anonymous
Jun 1, 2006 at 6:28 am
I think the mother should have a lesson in raising her child. The school cant possibly watch each and every student at every moment of the day and if the form was turned in by the student the student couldve changed the answer or not have turned it in. Watch her yourself lady.
Tamara
Jun 4, 2006 at 6:52 pm
That is just stupid. Let’s sue the school because the kid made a choice the parent didn’t agree with. That’s like saying let’s sue the school because a kid got cigs in the school bathroom. I am 19 and I am not a parent yet but I was raised way different from this girl. My parents wouldn’t go after the school they would be on my ass for it. Shit if she is 15 she would be going to school with an 18 year old as it is. The mother needs to get a damn life.
kati
Jun 6, 2006 at 9:48 am
i just found this site and man, is it interesting.. but on this particular one, i kind of side with the mother. first of all, this is a lot more severe than say, her child getting cigarettes in the bathroom. her child ran off with someone who could’ve seriously hurt her. that’s serious stuff. and i guess you’d have to know more details. i mean who is to say that her mother doesn’t keep up with her daughters life as much as possible. and honestly, i think the school should be held accountable to an extent because these are officials who we are trusting our kids with. i mean, no, you can’t expect the school to ‘raise’ your kids, but the school should be expected to respect certain requests the parents make. the mother trusted that the school would enforce a written request to not allow her daughter to use the internet. i’m not saying it’s the schools fault entirely, but i do think they deserve part of the blame. as much as some parents would like it, it’s just not possible to be with your kids every minute of every day. and even still, it’s not like the kid used the internet at a friends house. this is a school… a place that is meant to help our children and WORK WITH PARENTS (not act as parents) to make sure kids are taken care of. i mean, whatever happened to blocking sites? why is a website like myspace even accessable at a school. i always thought the internet was introduced to schools for educational purposes. and i know for a fact that a school can or can not allow access to certain websites on a school facilitated computer. but like i said, i guess you would really need more details about the rest of the mother/daughter relationship to really make a good call.
Liz
Jun 10, 2006 at 11:08 pm
I think it needs to be done! If we just sit back complaining about schools not blocking myspace, nothing is ever going to get done about it. If parents start suing, which I feel she has every right, then maybe it will give schools the incentive to pay more attention! How can everyone sit there and blame the parents for the children being internet whores? Every argues that the parents should have monitored the kids better! How can you monitor your kids if the school isn’t?? You send your kids to school, thinking they’re safe, I mean they wouldn’t let some 21 year old walk on campus and try to pick up a 15 year old, or an 18 year old for that matter. But by allowing myspace in the schools, that’s exactly what they’re doing! If you can’t trust that the school is keeping a good eye on your kid, then who can you trust?
Luann
Jun 29, 2006 at 11:52 am
Myspace.com does not belong in schools. I requested that my daughter not have internet access in writing and in person and was assured by the principle she would not have. Internet acces for children is a parental decision not a school decision precisely because schools can’t watch everyone everytime. The school Superintendent informed me the school could not block myspace.com and I know this to be untrue since any IT person with minimal experience can block any site they want to. The only thing the school did was say to my daughter “don’t go online here” and if you have a teenager you know that was like a dare. Not only that but they allowed 2 strangers over the age of 18 to walk into the school, ask to use the rest room and were directed to it but not supervised to it, at which time they wandered the school until they found my daughter and left school with her. My daughter missed 2 classes and neither teacher reported her missing which is odd since she is a type I Diabetic and could of been passed out in a diabetic coma somewhere in school at the time. When a child gets on that school bus no parent should have to worry that strangers can enter a school and take the child anytime. I have to go to sign her out of school if I want to take her somewhere but apparently strangers can do as they please.
Luann
Jun 29, 2006 at 11:56 am
I don’t expect the school to watch each and every child all the time. I expect the school to stop strangers from entering the school, wandering the hallls and leaving with students. It is not too much to ask.
Trench
Jun 29, 2006 at 12:07 pm
You don’t even need an IT dept. tp block MySpace. It can be done on just about any browser. The news report dodn’t mention any behavioral issues with your daughter or how the school was handling it so I apologize for my previous statement.
Luann
Jun 29, 2006 at 2:19 pm
My daughter has never been a behavior problem in school and up until this school year had grades in the 80’s. She has a medical 504 because she is a Type I insulin dependent diabetic since the age of 6 that allows her snakcs, testing. etc. in the classroom.
Jake (Florida)
Jul 17, 2006 at 7:30 pm
You CAN’T block ANY site in a browser. All they have to do is pull up any search engine and type in myspace.com and click on the link. They know how to cover their tracks. The only way I can keep him off is to delete his account on Windows XP. Then I had to use the screensaver at 1 minute to keep him off when his mom forgets to log off windows. So now he only has a 59 seconds to get to the computer before the password protection come on. No more Myspace….