Missouri Teachers Sue State Over Facebook Law (443 hits)
The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging one provision of a new state law seeking to regulate teachers’ contact with students via social networking sites.
The law, passed unanimously in both chambers of the Legislature in May, states that teachers may not have hidden chats with their own students. Education groups, including the MSTA, were heavily involved in crafting the language over a four-year period, after an Associated Press investigation found 87 Missouri teachers lost their licenses between 2001 and 2005 because of s*xual misconduct, including explicit private messages to students. by Karla Dial, contributing editor to Citizen magazine
