• Ars Technica, Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:46 AM

A Connecticut court has effectively given its blessing to a local high school that declined to renew the contract of an English teacher for using his MySpace page to conduct inappropriate communications with his students.

The communications weren't sexual in nature, unless you count the teacher mocking a pair of students named Repko and Ashley for "sittin in a tree K I S S I N G ... HA HA HA!!!!! LOL." He also posted his own (dreadful) poetry decrying the war in Iraq, and other items that crossed the line of a formal student/teacher relationship.

The teacher sued when his contract was not renewed, but the court tossed the case out. The judge did state, however, that the school was "reasonable" to expect "a teacher with supervisory authority over students, to maintain a professional, respectful association with those students."

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