Let's face it, these priests, nuns and teachers could just be intimidated by competition on Myspace ;-) A simple comparison of the pedophilia convictions in the catholic church vs those of mysace users would probably put this great story nicely into its absurd context (no, I don't have the numbers - be my guest). Can someone explain to me why we haven't banned catholic schools yet?
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Let’s face it, these priests, nuns and teachers could just be intimidated by competition on Myspace
ROFL!!
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Now I will read the rest of your comment.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Hehe - I'm totally gonna look up those stats now.
Anshul
· 2 years ago
Another stupid way to tackle such an issue. Why does everyone feel that the best way to keep children is to ban things for them.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Anshul,
Lack of understanding. Fear of the new. Maybe even a culture of fear. (Watch the news every day and you'll come away with the sense that pedophiles live in every neighborhood and terrorists lurk around every corner.)
Christine
· 2 years ago
Just like banning birth control and sex ed prevents pregnancy, I'm SURE this will work. Must be so nice to just ban stuff rather than actually have to teach children to make good decisions themselves...
Al
· 2 years ago
It's not so simple. If you have kids, there are all sorts of things that you naturally do to guide and protect them. All of this is done at various ages, levels of maturity, etc. To say that the entire internet should be open to kids of all ages is ridiculous and flies in the face of parents' and schools' responsibilities.
How can you teach kids to make good decisions if you can't exercise tools to help out? Banning/delaying things like MySpace is just another tool.
Concerning some parents that allow their kids to do "most everything" so they can sort it out themselves, I think this is a crock of sh*t. Why is a crock of sh*t? Because kids are very impressionable and I mean “very.†So if the parent isn't doing the teaching, then the parent has decided that it's okay for others to do the teaching because kids suck everything in without a strong enough framework to decide what is right and wrong. So then, the parents wonders why their kids get screwed up. Another thing is kids may say they hate tough parents, but people tend to respect and highlight the people who were tough role models when they were children. You laugh at the uncle or teacher that let you get away with “murder,†but you thank the ones that pushed you. People have outlawed smoking in most places, right? Why don't we give kids cigarettes and let them decide? We don’t and, at every turn, the kids are smothered with anti-smoking messages. For some reason, many people can’t see that other forms of “input†can be equally or more destructive.
So anyways, for this parent at least, most of the comments here don’t seem right.
Otis R. Needleman
· 2 years ago
I am no fan of MySpace but the school is taking the wrong tack. Better the school should educate the students about the perils involved in using MySpace. The brute-force approach just makes MySpace forbidden fruit, and we all know how that works. Anyway, it won't take the kids long to work around the edict. And the Catholic Church wonders why it is losing members...
It's a radical overstepping of bounds, but because it's a private school, there's not a damn thing these poor kids can do about it.
The real question is why these parents want to send their kids to a Catholic school anyway. Teats on a bull, if you ask me.
Annette
· 2 years ago
Damn Nuns. Myspace..is awesome!
cj
· 2 years ago
i cant get on
e money
· 2 years ago
I went to St. Hugo. Sister Margaret runs that place like an internment camp.This is not about "the horrors of myspace", its about someone making Sister Margaret a myspace page.NOTHING MORE.The bitch is crazy.You would be amazed to know what goes on there.Ill write a book some day.
james
· 2 years ago
wow! You guys can't get it right! She's banning the one dangerous social life of kids becuase of predators. The account that was made of her was after the incident. I agree yet i disagree with her decision; I think the adults should be aware of the fact that their children have myspaces, but it does keep these many children away from any predators, whom are very tricky and smart lurking around every corner to talk and act like a kid until they trap them. The smartest people make the dumbest decisions; people who are predators for example. I debate the fact that schools should be able to take advantage of these kids social life, as long as the parents are aware and reccognise the many dangers!
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
· 2 years ago
Wow. Catholic school survivor here, and it's nice to see things haven't changed a bit. The real idiots here are the parents, however, for not standing up to the school. What is a better idea? Letting your kid have a MySpace profile you can monitor and KNOWING what he's doing online or letting the school tell you to tell him he CAN'T have one, so he sneaks off and recreates one behind your back and then you have NO idea what he's doing online.
AT some point, the Catholic Church will acknowledge that the 20th century occurred. I have no hopes of them joining us in the 21st.
philosgirl
· 2 years ago
myspace is a cruel way of after school revenge that is literally filled with predators, foul language and harassing, and sexual images. I can understand why the school would ban it, but its the parents job to control what goes on with their child after school.
philosgirl
· 2 years ago
myspace is a cruel way of after school revenge that is literally filled with predators, foul language and harassing, and sexual images. So I can completely understand why the school would ban it, but its the parents job to control what goes on with their child after school.Not the schools
alicia anderson
· 2 years ago
naw u just mad cuz u aint got no friends and don't nobody like u on myspace thats probably why they harrass u, dont be trynna ruin everbody else fun cuz dont nobody wanna talk to u
jay-dog
· 2 years ago
dude u guys are all gay you need to get a life and stop worying about your stupid lil myspacee
Satan
· 2 years ago
lol @ the parents and administerators
crazychic
· 2 years ago
We r gay bcause we care about the society of 2morrow? U flaunt your ignorance (lol)
alicia anderson
· 2 years ago
how the heck you gone band myspace at somebody house if they wanna go on myspace thats what they gone do, its call individual rights, learn about it!
kelly
· 2 years ago
joey is gay
jeannet beltran
· 2 years ago
I NOE~1
reiny april
· 2 years ago
we'll do what we want. you're not helping none just making us miserable.
Sister Margaret
· 2 years ago
I OWN those kids!!! I OWN their parents!!! Do as I say or you'll be kicked out of my penal colony!!!
kiddddd
· 2 years ago
I went to that school also. I think its the worst school and they have NO right doing this to kids. EVERYONE who had a myspace got it back within a week of this whole thing. I think is was a publicity stunt just like everything else the school does =]
jeannet beltran
· 2 years ago
WHY THE FUCK DOES THIS DUMASS COMPUTER AT SKOOL WORK THIZ IS SOME GAY AZZ SHIT ~!!! FOSHOWSKI~!
Roger
· 2 years ago
Y'all need to take some chill pills and some gin cuz y'all is trizzippinnn!!1!!!111!!!! . myspace is the SHIZNIT!1!!one1!!11+SHIFT.
nigga
Roger
· 2 years ago
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samantha
· 2 years ago
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Lauren
· 1 year ago
I don't think that the Catholic school has the right to control what the children do at home on their spare time. It's a given that students shouldn't be using Myspace at school, whereas parents shouldn't be using it in the work place as well. But at home is your own free time. Myspace doesn't necessarily lead to such behavior as doing drugs, alcohol consumption, or pornography. Adolescents primarily conduct in using Myspace just for fun and to keep tabs on the newest trends and what is going on with their friends. Myspace is more of a way of social life. Sure there are pedophiles and weird people on Myspace, but the students should have enough of a brain to not engage in conversation with these people. Restraining children from doing what they want to an extent is basically causing the childs downfall. Because, as soon as mom, dad, and the school no longer have tabs on them anymore, they're going to do as they please. So morals need to be taught young, but the child has to live a little or they're never going to make it in the real world, no matter how much you try to fight this argument, it's been sociologically proven that depriving kids of learning experiences leads to awful situations later in life, because, they don't know how to react when it's set infront of them.
All Comments
ROFL!!
Lack of understanding. Fear of the new. Maybe even a culture of fear. (Watch the news every day and you'll come away with the sense that pedophiles live in every neighborhood and terrorists lurk around every corner.)
How can you teach kids to make good decisions if you can't exercise tools to help out? Banning/delaying things like MySpace is just another tool.
Concerning some parents that allow their kids to do "most everything" so they can sort it out themselves, I think this is a crock of sh*t. Why is a crock of sh*t? Because kids are very impressionable and I mean “very.†So if the parent isn't doing the teaching, then the parent has decided that it's okay for others to do the teaching because kids suck everything in without a strong enough framework to decide what is right and wrong. So then, the parents wonders why their kids get screwed up. Another thing is kids may say they hate tough parents, but people tend to respect and highlight the people who were tough role models when they were children. You laugh at the uncle or teacher that let you get away with “murder,†but you thank the ones that pushed you.
People have outlawed smoking in most places, right? Why don't we give kids cigarettes and let them decide? We don’t and, at every turn, the kids are smothered with anti-smoking messages. For some reason, many people can’t see that other forms of “input†can be equally or more destructive.
So anyways, for this parent at least, most of the comments here don’t seem right.
The real question is why these parents want to send their kids to a Catholic school anyway. Teats on a bull, if you ask me.
AT some point, the Catholic Church will acknowledge that the 20th century occurred. I have no hopes of them joining us in the 21st.
U flaunt your ignorance
(lol)
you're not helping none just making us miserable.
FOSHOWSKI~!
nigga