Web site crosses the line. (Update: education news from schools, businesses, research and government agencies).Parents and school administrators in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, were successful in closing an allegedly hurtful Web site, saying its information was harmful to children. On schoolscandals.com, a Shout Box included profanities and disparaging dis·par·age tr.v. dis·par·aged, dis·par·ag·ing, dis·par·ag·es 1. To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; belittle. See Synonyms at decry. 2. To reduce in esteem or rank. remarks against certain students and their parents. The site featured links for chat rooms for about nearly 100 Southern California middle and high schools, particularly in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Chat room messages called students "retard," "whores" or one, a "homosexual with a pigeon-like face and penguin-like body." Before the site shut down, principals at Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. had previously ordered a block against the site on all campus computers. Ken Tennen, an attorney for the Web site owners, had stated before the site shut down that it did not violate any law and was a non-profit, opinion-based, student-run bulletin board system. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a 1996 law, only those sites that hold the right to create and edit material on their sites can be held liable for content, stated Mark Radcliffe, a cyberspace and new media law attorney. |
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