{"id":2074,"date":"2007-05-10T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/05\/pennsylvania-education-thought-police-or-not.html"},"modified":"2007-05-10T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:08:00","slug":"pennsylvania-education-thought-police-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/05\/pennsylvania-education-thought-police-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania education thought police..or not"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: It turns out there is more to the story<\/span><\/a> (Lancaster New Era<\/i>) than when I wrote this post last night. In fact, it kind of torpedos most of the post. I hate it when that happens. You get my point though, right?<\/p>\n

Run Up the Score!<\/b><\/a> alerted me to this disturbing news<\/span><\/a> (AP\/Fox News<\/i>):<\/p>\n

MILLERSVILLE, Pa. \u2014 A woman denied a teaching degree on the eve of graduation because of a MySpace photo has sued the university.<\/p>\n

Millersville University instead granted Stacy Snyder a degree in English last year after learning of the Web-published picture of her, which bore the caption “Drunken Pirate.”<\/p>\n

snip<\/i><\/p>\n

The photo, taken at a 2005 Halloween party, shows Snyder wearing a pirate hat while drinking from a plastic “Mr. Goodbar” cup. It was posted on her own MySpace site.<\/p>\n

snip<\/i><\/p>\n

Snyder did her student-teaching at Conestoga Valley High School in 2006. Conestoga Valley officials told the college they would stop accepting student-teachers from Millersville if she went unpunished, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

Although Snyder apologized, she learned on May 12 \u2014 the day before graduation \u2014 that she would not be awarded an education degree or teaching certificate.<\/p>\n

Jane S. Bray, dean of the School of Education, in a meeting that day accused Snyder of promoting underage drinking, the suit states.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are several problems here:<\/p>\n

  • Arguing that a photograph of a 25 year-old drinking out of a plastic cup encourages underage drinking is absurd.\n
  • Conestoga Valley saying it would not hire ANY Millersville graduates if Snyder was allowed to graduate is incredibly heavy-handed and vindictive and punishes people who have nothing to due with Snyder. If Conestoga does not want to hire Snyder, that is their prerogative. Keeping her from being hired anywhere for that reason is not.\n
  • Millersville and Bray are gutless for letting them be bullied by Conestoga’s thought police.\n

    While I understand the pitfalls of putting one’s private life in the public space that is the Web, I don’t think a simple photo captioned “drunken pirate” is even enough to raise an eyebrow on a background check for a federal security clearance. I suspect somebody had an axe to grind with Snyder and is abusing the system to get back at her. I hope Snyder wins and if she has a legal defense fund, I’ll gladly post it on this blog.<\/p>\n

    What an awful school district and cowardly university.<\/strike><\/p>\n

    More from MyCrimeSpace<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

    ©MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    UPDATE: It turns out there is more to the story (Lancaster New Era) than when I wrote this post last night. In fact, it kind of torpedos most of the post. I hate it when that happens. You get my point though, right? Run Up the Score! alerted me to this disturbing news (AP\/Fox News): […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,108],"tags":[1331],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pennsylvania","category-whiskey-tango-foxtrot","tag-pa-2"],"yoast_head":"\nPennsylvania education thought police..or not - William F. 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