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Students Suspended Over Tweets But What About the Staff?

Over 60 Chula Vista high Students were suspended this week for posting in and following twitter handle sdsconfess.  School officials were alarmed at tweets posted in the page, outing bad behavior around the school’s campus.  Officials suspended students for cyber bullying, but before the page was taken down, local news affiliate 10 News reports the following tweets on the timeline:

“A male teacher once told me to close my legs because I was tempting him. WE WEAR SKIRTS.”

“Our security guard buys the girls alcohol.”

Now the students have done their time.  Do you think the school will follow up with its own staff to investigate the students’ allegations?  Is it fair to take Twitter serious enough to suspend students but not serious enough to investigate staff?

The Sins of the Sons are Visited on the Father(land)

Boston Globe writer wowed us with his balanced expression of bigotry and world geography mastery with this tweet  that he sent during the Opening ceremony in Sochi referring to the Boston Marathon bombers .  So much wrong in just 140 characters.

Is is really fair to blame all of Russia and the other country they were from, Kyrgyzstan, or did you just mean Russia?
Is is really fair to blame all of Russia and the other country they were from, Kyrgyzstan, or did you just mean Russia?

Some Speak English and Some Don’t: No judgement!

Coca Cola aired an ad during the Super Bowl featuring a multicultural group of actors singing American the Beautiful in a variety of languages.  Crazy, right?  Except more than 25% of Americans can speak another language.  Hold on, though! In a tweet from hell, Max schools us all on the official language in these here parts.

coke is unamerikan