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US teacher suspended for teaching real journalism

A MICHIGAN teacher has been suspended after her students produced a hard hitting documentary about the perils of Myspace.com.

Devon Fralick approved the eight minute documentary by two Lakeview High School students which tried to warn classmates about the dangers of putting personal information on the Internet.

The documentary was screened on the school's in house network and caused administrators to go into a tail spin.

Images were taken from the Myspace.com and blurred, but school administrators felt that the broadcast's message "was lost because of the selection of photographs, language and music" that was included.

Fralick was escorted from the school soon after the show was broadcast, much to the horror of the teens who made the show. Neil Willoughby, 17, a junior at the school who helped put together the presentation said that it was ludicrous as if anyone should take the heat for this, it should be him.

Willoughby seems to have done a damn fine job in making sure that Fralick's side of the story comes out. He seems to have chatted to lots of other hacks in the US press as you can see here. http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs...

Posted by: SoulRiser
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Posted in: News on March 6, 2006 @ 12:00 AM

Tags: School

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