I've heard of in-loco parentis before, but
this example of ex-loco parentis is way-loco:
The board of [Libertyville, Ill.] Community High School District 128 voted unanimously on Monday to require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropriate" behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for disciplinary action.
The rule will take effect at the start of the next school year, officials said.
District officials won't regularly search students' sites, but will monitor them if they get a worrisome tip from another student, a parent or a community member.
WTF?
What kind of Nazi-inspired bullshit is this? If your PERSONAL (not school-based, not school-anything) website happens to have someone smoking on it--and as near as I can tell, an article about how bad smoking is accompanied by a picture of someone smoking would qualify--no more Honors Choir for you. Got a quick snap of a friend at Spring Break in her thong? Say sayonara to Japanese club. Post a review of the movie Up in Smoke, and include a shot of the DVD cover? The A/V club is now deaf and blind to you.
And they say they won't monitor the blogs themselves; they'll leave that to "concerned citizens." If that's not a recipe for paranoid fascist control...
About all I can do is continue sputtering about this utterly ridiculous, soon-to-be-challenged idiocy of a regulation, so I leave it to the Kossacks to discuss their collective up-gotten dander...