Topic : 01/21 Real Life Gossip Girls

I can't believe the father of the girl who took the picture! If my daughter took a NUDE picture of a classmate without her consent, let alone sent it around school....I never would have fought to get them back on their cheerleading squad....PERIOD. Going against moral and school policy shows your children that there are no consequences for their actions. And the attitude radiating from the father's voice really made me angry! If a nude photo of his daughter was taken and distributed, he would definately be singing a different tune! Shame on the two girls who took the photo and more shame on their parents! Oh and P.S. that website the father made up about how  the girls who took the photo were 'brave' is a joke! That website should be removed!

In Denmark we just had an incident where an entire class aged about 11 went on arto, which is similar to myspace but aimed for teenagers (they use special software, so they can bypass the filters in the school).

They voted for their favorite hate teacher and one specific teacher was called "pedo", which is an ashortening for something no parent wants in school.

It was discovered and all but one was suspended for a week for two. The board in the school and the head teacher wanted to expell the one student, but the city counsel whipped the entire board and the head teacher into place.

No court, no trial but professional politicians, who understood that teenagers are not mature adults, who know the difference between the spoken and the written word.

Parents would of course not give a chainsaw into the hand of their child without instructions, but they are willing to let the child loose on their own without proper supervision.

My advice is. Give your child access to the internet, but create a fake profile and monitor the activity, so disgraceful pictures and conversations, which are getting out of hand can be stopped.

Exactly - its just another case of desperately blind and irresponsible parents buying their kids way to college -- they knew that this suspension and being thrown off the cheerleading squad would reflect poorly when their 'brave little darlings' were applying for college - so they hired a lawyer to re-write history.

The real shame belongs with the school - they should never have been weak enough to give in these thugs and their parents. THey've set a terrible precedence.

In this instance this mother should not have gone to the school but to the police - what those girls did was illegal and may be even be a federal crime since they emailed it. I do agree that they need to move on - but sometimes you want and need justice to move on.