Hayman, Genevieve. “Student Privacy: MySpace -- or their Space?.” Las Vegas Review - Journal. Las Vegas Review - Journal, 20 January 2008. Web. 18 November 2009 <http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/13932826.html>.
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The editorial Student Privacy: MySpace -- or their Space written by Genevieve Hayman (Senior), student of Green Valley High School, she insinuates that the two female students’ First Amendment rights were violated; however, the punishment that the schools give teens because of things on their MySpace pages are not appropriate. She states that instead of schools punishing students for what is on their private MySpace pages that they should encourage students to keep their pages as private as possible so that schools, employers, or colleges cannot base judgment on the teens because what is on their MySpace pages. She supports her opinion by letting the reader know who a teen feels before and while he/she is getting in trouble. She mentions at the end of her editorial that schools should not take away from a students’ freedom of creativity.
I believe that someone reading this article can get a different kind of perspective on the research question proposed by myself in this research project. An intelligent person could read this editorial and understand what MySpace pages mean to students and how they feel like they are just expressing themselves through their MySpace pages verses expressing themselves in a negative or improper way at school or at school events. The person reading this could see the opinion about how the First Amendment rights were violated due to fact that students are just looking for different ways to express themselves without disrupting the school learning environment.
