Does a school have a right to monitor students' use of the school network?

What rights does the school have?

Do students have any rights to privacy at school?

Suppose the school has a rule against using Facebook at school and a teacher sees a student on Facebook. Does the teacher then have a right to browse through that student's Facebook? Why or why not?

I know what you mean, podisd. There's a lot to keep up with.

I tend to think of the information I need as being in two broad categories: published stuff I want to keep up with and the stuff that was meant specifically for me.

An RSS reader (I use Google Reader) helps to organize published items with feeds such as news, blogs, wikis, and students Diigo work.

Gmail takes care of the personal information from Twitter, Facebook, OCC, and four email addresses. It all funnels to one Gmail account and then filters and labels organize it.

There's still tons to go through, but this helps with the organization.

Is it wrong to lie?

A man and his wife are in a car wreck; the wife is killed. The man has just come out of surgery. He is in bad shape, and needs to rest. His doctor has seen patients in similar conditions suffer heart attacks when told bad news. The man asks if his wife is all right. Is it OK for the doctor to lie?