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Your employer has more of a right to do it than a school principal. Employees tacitly agree to any such conditions of employment, giving employers broad rights. School is a public institution, and is subject to Constitutional guarantees including those enumerated in the First Amendment. A school principal has no more rights over a student than a librarian has over the patrons or the county register of deeds has over citizens at home.
However, school attendance no longer being truly mandatory in practice, school principals are in fact assuming these unconstitutional (and unconscionable) rights, and not being seriously challenged, so routinely get away with it, as the American public willingly allows their rights to be abrogated, in fact with gratitude.
Only employees without a union "tacitly" agree to ridiculous conditions of emplyment...........
Should principals have a say as to what a students does outside of school? Normally I would say no. Someone was talking about a student being able to play sports without consequences of incidents outside of the school.
My daughter was a competitive cheerleader. The entire squad and their parents were quite annoyed when the squad was not able to participate. The school seemed to be dragging their feet as to the reason why.
Turns out they were investigating more than one cheerleader taking drugs. In the end I was happy they investigated- one of the bases that was catching my daughter (the flier) was heavily into prescription drugs. The girl entered rehab. That could have been a disaster for us. So glad the principal was on top of things!!
Kids and teens are always one step ahead of their parents when it comes to social media and technology (not counting the dumb ones). While Principal X is stalking his students on FB, the students will air their dirty laundry on some new site created two weeks ago that no one has heard of outside of Silicon Valley.
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