San Antonio principal sues students over fake MySpace
Principal Sues Students Over MySpace Pictures:
A vice principal from a San Antonio school is suing some of her students for making a derogatory MySpace about her but it doesn’t end there…
A fake web page on the website, myspace.com, has some Northside ISD students in legal trouble, News 4 WOAI learned Wednesday. The teens are accused of using the site to spread malicious rumors about their vice principal.
The vice principal is taking the students to court, News 4 WOAI learned.
On Clark High School’s web page, a picture of Assistant Principal Anna Draker has been removed. According to Draker�s attorney, a couple of students doctored her pictures and posted them on myspace.com.
The civil lawsuit claims a couple of students who Draker disciplined retaliated by filing the myspace page. The web page was filled with lewd, defamatory and obscene comments, pictures and graphics, according to the suit.
The students even attacked the assistant principal’s sexuality by posting false rumors, Draker�s attorney said. The suit claims Draker has been harassed by others accessing the web page.
Assistant Principal Draker is also suing the students parents, suggesting they have a duty to supervise the teens, according to court papers.
Rock on Assistant Principal Draker. I don’t know if a lawsuit is how I would have handled it but props to you for calling the parents out on the carpet. Just maybe, it will send a message to some parents to be vigilant of their kids’ online activities.
19 opinions for San Antonio principal sues students over fake MySpace
LS
Sep 23, 2006 at 7:55 pm
I’m…really not sure how I feel about this. I applaud her for holding the parents responsible, but it seems a little misplaced. My knowledge of the law reguarding slander and libel isn’t very good, but from your brief overview this seems more like satire than anything else.
Then again, I’ve always found situations where slander and libel laws come into play to be scary.
clark alum
Sep 24, 2006 at 12:42 am
SATiRE iS A FORM OF _PROTECTED_SPEECH_.
not that a clark HS micro-facist would understand the parts of the consititution they don’t like recoginize.
clark looks and feels like a prison for kids. bells regulate movement like a nazi death kamp. wasp football jocks beg for the columbine treatment. there was a good speech program, now gone to churchill hs across town.
mexican kids try and rob you waiting for the bus after school and attack you for stopping them.
let’s ALL PUT UP PAGES MOCKiNG THIS UPTiGHT DYKE BiTCH
andy davis
Sep 24, 2006 at 12:07 pm
It does not matter how you FEEL. Feelings are not logical and have no place in the law. It is UNCONSTITUTIONAL for Any government agency to stiffle free speach. What are we comming to if we as Americans cant goof or make fun of people. Ever comedian and Saturday night live, journalist, and critics woyld be in jail. This dumd ass principle should be fired and sued by the ACLU. As long as it’s not a threat we can say what ever we want as long as it can be read and understood that is is satire. The school are tring to control free speach. Would you “feel” good people wake up? I am Alex Davis’ dad of the MySpace fame hehre in GA. And we won with hands down in the media and the teaher quit the school and went to another. They all got what they deserved. Public humiliation.
Andy Davis
Trench
Sep 24, 2006 at 12:13 pm
The big bad government is not intervening here. This is a civil lawsuit instituted by the assistant principal, a private citizen. I don’t know if the lawsuit has merit or not without seeing the MySpace in question but this is not an issue of free speech of the MySpace contained something malicious and libelous.
Soobs
Sep 24, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Thanks, Trench, for being the voice of reason. As a parent of a 16 yr old with a MySpace, I don’t control what she puts on there. I have her password, to spy on her (yes, there have been reasons to do so). IF, I found something lewd, and crude, I’d delete it myself, if she didn’t. But I’m kinda a Police Parent that way.
keb
Sep 24, 2006 at 10:00 pm
“…bells regulate movement like a nazi death kamp. wasp football jocks beg for the columbine treatment” - - hold on here, are you listening to yourself?? you imply that you want more freedom yet you clearly implicate yourself as someone in need of external control. You scare me, kid.
Gary
Sep 25, 2006 at 10:32 am
This has nothing to do with free speech you idiots, They stole her indentity! The took her picture from the scholl website, pasted it on other photos. They opened the account in HER name. Identity theft is a crime in case you have not heard. She is doing what’s right. I personally hope this sends a message to kids and parents that you CAN NOT do what ever you want! There ARE consiquences for your actions! The problems with todays youth are real and the politically correct system has left schools unable to do anything about it. ANNA I AM PROUD OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Gary
Sep 25, 2006 at 10:55 am
One more thing, She is someone’s Wife, Daughter, Sister, Granddaughter, and Mother. What if it happened to yours, how would you feel then?
Shannon
Sep 25, 2006 at 2:38 pm
I would really like to be able to visit with you. Any suggestions as to how that can be accomplished without all these people getting our email addresses?
Dances With Books
Oct 4, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Kudos for the principal. And yes, like Gary points out, this is not some free speech issue. It is identity theft for one. It does seem to have the possibility of libel as well (which is the written one; slander is when you say it) since it was clearly with the intention of harming the person’s reputation. And good for the principal to call out the parents as well. It’s about time parents did their actual job of parenting. I wish that principal the best of luck and hope for a win on the suit.
J
Oct 18, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Anna draker is such a hoe-bag and needs to get harrassed endlessly. i heard about this in NY and im pissed off about her ridiculous selfishness.
Natalie
Oct 22, 2006 at 12:41 am
I do agree with Gary and dances with brooks with thier point, that yes, it has absolutly nothing to do with Free speech, but identity Theft. It was malicous and very cruel. Yes, there are coniquences for thier actions, and they should be punished. But as for parents doing there job, as a 21 year old college student, my parents did a great job with my supervision, yet i still managed to get away with certain things. At that age, they, the kids know right from wrong, parents cannot monitor everything the children do, especially when it comes to the internet. At my high school, i had access to the internet with NO TEACHER supervision, yet alone, my parents. I could easily go to a public library and use the internet or even a friends place. I don’t think the parents are to blame for the action of thier children. I think the kids should be held 100% accountable on this issue, not the parents. To me, sueing is a HUGE deal, when i was in high school, “SLAM BOOKS” went around, which bascially is the same thing, just not posted on the internet, but it went around the different schools in that district, and the most trouble a student would get in, was suspension.
mat
Dec 6, 2006 at 5:50 pm
GOOD FOR YOU! good for you. Standing up for not just yourself, but for the other people who have had i.d. theft. take
those kids to the extreme, it’s the ONLY way they will learn a lesson. Since there not adults they won’t care. Look what happened. Take the next step and go for the source, MYSPACE. That website should monitor what’s going on, not neglect the fact that someone out there would try to use there site for evil. You have a case! Don’t miss this chance of oppirtunity to make a impact on all our lives.
Megs
Dec 6, 2006 at 11:52 pm
I’m writing an article about her for my Xanga and thought I’d do a little bit of research, since she’s appearing on “Dr. Phil” tonight. I hope she doesn’t sue me for *that*.
Laspic
Dec 7, 2006 at 12:29 am
Hmm, not sure if convicting them of a felony and sending them to jail for 15-20 years is the ONLY way they will learn a lesson.
DJ
Dec 7, 2006 at 7:18 pm
This is the most misguided ridiculous behavior I have ever seen. Yes, educators are faced with unbelievable circumstances with today’s children, but remember - THEY ARE CHILDREN.
This was a malicious and rude prank, but the fact is - it was a prank. I hope she is awarded absolutely nothing and faces ridicule from her peers and the public.
elizabeth
Dec 10, 2006 at 2:11 am
i think that mrs draker is psycho and that she deserves what happened to her shes mean
Afraid to leave my name for Mrs. Draker to obsess over
Dec 1, 2007 at 11:08 am
I go to Clark HS. I know Mrs. Draker personally, and I am able to say I’m scared of her. After this “crime”, she has a program that enables her to access myspace profiles that are set to private. She accessed mine, because she said it “crossed her eye.” When she called me to her office, I felt she has been spying on me for years. She knows my fears, likes, dislikes, opinions, past, and just about anything pertaining to my life. She needs to learn that teens are going to spread discriminative opinions, teens are more opinionated than most adults I know. She needs to lose access to personal profiles, and lose the ideology that she is a private investigator rather than an assistant principal. Dr. Phil bitched her out, is that not enough? She needs to have an intervention or something, this privacy invasion is more of an addiction than most people see it as. Nevertheless, I find it completely wrong to blame the parents, at this day and age people know that parents have almost absolutely NO control over their kids’ actions. I can even log on to myspace at school. School has adobe photoshop, go ahead Mrs. Draker, monitor me. It’s not gonna stop anyone. Cruel. If she can bring a kid to court for an offensive myspace, she can bring me to court for this offensive comment. It’s scary.
GRRR.
Michele
Mar 19, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Okay 1st this isnt free speech, 2nd everyone is entitled to their opinion but to make a site devoted to being cruel, while it may not be illeagal it is plain stupid and can be seen as harrasment which is illeagal. 3rd for the person talking about Clark being like a Nazi camp, with the football team begging for columbine treatment and Mexicans trying to steal from you, cry me a river, most of the students who go to Clark are the offspring of some of the richest families in San Antonio. The student parking lot has nicer cars than the faculty. All this is is a couple of stupid girls who dont like being told what to do. No one would like it if these things were being done to them. And to bring up Columbine is just disrespectful to all the families who list their children. and while we are on the subject of children, yes they are just children but they knew what they were doing and planned this so yes they should be punished and lastly to the girl who didnt like the vice pricipal being able to see all her private info… sweetheart if its that important to keep to your self DON’T PUT IT ON THE INTERNET- GET A DIARY! Thats all thanks for your time.
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