Posted AT 1:28 AM EDT on 24/03/07
Are teens crossing the line with online insults?
By ANTHONY REINHART and CAROLINE ALPHONSO AND RACHEL DELAZZER
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
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Kicked out of school over online insults against a vice-principal, Brad Parsons, the face of free expression's latest fight, took his place in the sun outside his Toronto high school yesterday.
Brad, 16, was suspended from Birchmount Park Collegiate this week for starting an online chat group, on a website called Facebook, where students were invited to register their dislike of the vice-principal.
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