Yeah, that didn’t take too long. After seeing how stupid it would be to issue a wholesale ban of internet communication between teachers and their students—free speech shenanigans—a judge and the Missouri House reversed the law, putting a more reasonable bill in its place.
https://gizmodo.com/missouri-has-banned-teachers-from-being-facebook-friend-5826539
The new bill, which will require school districts to implement their own communication policies by March 1st, 2012, follows a recent suit filed by the Missouri State Teachers Association that called the law out on being over-cautious and altogether absurd. Not long afterward, a judge issued a temporary block of the law, effectively forcing the state to go back to the drawing board.
https://gizmodo.com/missouri-teachers-sue-over-absurd-facebook-law-5833122
Now the new bill just needs Governor Jay Nixon’s signature to pass into law. This is good news for teachers everywhere. [Ars Technica]
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