The Cynic Says……

Catholic school forbids students from having “blogs”

Ok, wtf? So apparently this private Catholic school in NJ has decided to forbid its students from having personal blogs. Mind you, they’re not just forbidding students from blogging while at school (which I could understand) but from blogging AT HOME. I’d like to know how that’s even remotely legal…. a school trying to regulate what students do on their own time away from school? Leave it to the fucking Catholics to think of something so utterly asinine. The reverend/principal/whatthefuckever says it’s to protect the students from online predators and whatnot. Yeah fucking right. The real reason they’re doing it is so that students don’t go saying bad stuff about the school online where everyone can read it. It’s to protect the school’s image. Don’t want the rest of the world knowing about the reverend’s special punishment for all those cute young freshman Catholic schoolgirls who wear their skirts a bit too short. Give me a break. God forbid they let these kids actually think and act for themselves and turn into responsible, self-sufficient adults. That’d be bad for the church, eh? Even funnier is that the idiot claims that he believes that most of the students have complied with the order. How in the world would he know if they’ve complied? Seriously, does he sit at home at night browsing through all the xanga, myspace, livejournal, etc. sites looking for students of his school to see if they have online blogs? He also says that those that don’t comply will face punishment. What kind of punishment? Does he not think for half a second that if he DOES decide to actually go through with punishing any student for not complying that it won’t end up in court? Dude’s definitely opened up a hell of a can of worms here. I’m not so sure I’d really want to be in his shoes at this point given the shitstorm he’s quite possibly setting himself up for. Why is it always the Catholic church that ends up stirring up the shit?