Remember your teenage years? The hormonally ispired awkwardness, the angst-ridden insecurity, the acne-medicine-stained Pearl Jam t-shirts. It seemed so much simpler back then. Now, you can get suspended for just looking at a threatening MySpace site. Now is the snot-nosed kid who actually posted the site an irresponsible brat who thought he could hide behind internet anonymity? Sure. It just seems to this ill-informed casual observer to be a bit rash to suspend TWENTY of his (I'm assuming again) classmates for LOOKING at this website. Any news story that's about MySpace gives the impression that it's chock full of brooding psychopaths and/or Lolitas.
But gen-whaterverthehelltheycallthemselvesnow can cheer up. If you're a thin-skinned 16 year old from the 'burbs, you can get your teacher canned for left-wing rants. Look, I had several civics teachers in high school whose politics weren't close to mine, but they were still good teachers. If this kid is freaking out about his teacher's position in high school, his head will probably explode if he goes to CU.
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