Apparently because they've run out of stupid reasons to suspend kids for in-school behavior - school administrators are now going after kids who keep weblogs. Note, these aren't cases where a kid was using school computers or school time to post to his weblog - these were cases where somebody either 'snitched' or an administrator started Googling students names.

Wesley Juhl received suspension and had to have a parent/teacher conference because of his blog: "The dean told me that what I'd written wasn't school appropriate," said Juhl, who was Valley's homecoming king this year and also was president of its drama club. "He said it wasn't appropriate for a journal. I just feel like I've been violated, like they've punished me for expressing my personal opinion."

Angie Scaduto was simply harassed by school administrators: Juhl wasn't the only Valley student who landed in hot water because of comments recorded in a personal online journal. His friend, Valley senior Angie Scaduto, was called to the dean's office at the same time Juhl was. She was questioned about one of her journal entries, which began: "I almost killed everyone today." The entry went on to explain all the things that had gone wrong that day, she said, and wasn't a threat against anyone. She also was asked about things she'd written about her mother and the fact that she'd said she'd taken cold medicine during lunch one day at school. "I kept asking, `What does this have to do with school?' " Scaduto said. "They never answered my question. I was completely shocked about it. They were my personal private thoughts and I was getting picked on for them."

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