"Facebook Photos Sting Minnesota High School Students"

The article from The Associated Press reports on how students from Eden Prairie High School got caught up in social networking.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 3's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Media in a Democracy, Daily Me, The Newspaper Is Dying, Facebook Photos Sting, Abolish high school football, Facing Consequences, Time to raise the bar, New Michigan Graduation Requirements, Why I Hate Cell Phones, Editorial Cartoons, Let's Hear It for the Cheerleaders, Girl Moved to Tears, In Depth, but Shallowly, Advice to Youth, The War Prayer, Gambling in Schools, How to Poison the Earth
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  1. protest
    express opposition through action or words
    For 16-year-old Nick Laurent, walking out of Eden Prairie High School yesterday to protest the school's punishment of students seen partying on Facebook pages was about asking administrators to be fair.
  2. perception
    a way of conceiving something
    The students said school administrators overreacted to the perception that students in the photos were drinking.
  3. administrator
    someone who manages a government agency or department
    He noted that it was impossible to see what was inside the cups, so administrators couldn't prove that students were drinking.
  4. arbitrary
    based on or subject to individual discretion or preference
    "They don't have the support of the students to hand out arbitrary punishments and punishments that don't fit the crime," he said.
  5. penalty
    the act of punishing
    School officials haven't said how the students were disciplined, but Minnesota State High School League penalties start with a two-game suspension for the first violation.
  6. abide
    dwell
    When students participate in sports or certain fine-arts activities, however, they must agree in writing to abide by the long-standing rules of the Minnesota State High School League, which prohibit the use of alcohol, tobacco and controlled substances, even over the summer.
  7. certify
    provide evidence for
    League spokesman Howard Voigt noted that parents must sign the forms, too, certifying that they understand the rules and penalties.
  8. violation
    an act that disregards an agreement or a right
    Voigt said there had been several cases of students running afoul of league rules because of potential violations posted on social-networking sites.
  9. assume
    take to be the case or to be true
    It's not safe for kids to assume what they do in small groups won't be broadcast to the entire world
  10. ubiquitous
    being present everywhere at once
    I don't think most of us would have liked to have lived our teen years in an era of ubiquitous camera phones and social networking
Created on Fri Nov 14 13:34:17 EST 2014 (updated Sun Nov 16 00:38:05 EST 2014)

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