Should Schools Have The Right To Monitor Social Media?

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"The government should not be able to have access to our social media accounts, out emails, texts, or phone calls because it is unconstitutional and its would be against our right as american citizens.

There has been some debate about whether or not schools have the right to monitor their students’ social media. Schools do not have the right to monitor their students social media. Schools would be violating students fourth amendment right. They would be searching their social media account without a justifiable cause. “The school is watching them 24/7,"" Gayda later said in an interview. ""My concern is if a kid goes home and writes 'the school lunch sucks,' and the next day they're brought in and in trouble for complaining about school
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STUDENT. A district court sided with J.C., ruling that those things didn’t rise to a substantial disruption of school.

The school violated their students privacy, first amendment right. The school did not have the right to suspend the student because it was off school campus and not on a owned electronic. These things still happen today. People video record each other fighting and even though it is off campus and not recorded on school electronics students are still being suspended or even expelled.

The Federal government should indeed have access to certain things. They should not have access to every single thing you have. Emails,social medias, texts, and phone calls are where we draw the line. Government should not have any access to these without a reasonable cause or unless they have your permission. It is against your fourth amendment right and first amendment right. You would not be able to speak freely without some type of punishment, and it searching you without a reasonable cause, just because they wanted to. A reason besides the first and fourth amendment right is some people can work their way in the government and find everything about you and could hurt you or the people you love without a second

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