Indiana High School Senior Expelled for Profane Tweets
A high school senior in Indiana has been expelled for the content of his tweets.
Austin Carroll, a student at Garrett High School in Indiana used profanity in a tweet posted to his personal Twitter account. While he claims that the tweet was published from home, the school says it was posted using a school computer and is reason for his expulsion.
“One of my tweets was, BEEP is one of those BEEP words you can BEEP put anywhere in a BEEP sentence and it still BEEP make sense,” Carroll said in an interview with a local television station after his expulsion. “If my account is on my own personal account, I don’t think the school or anybody should be looking at it. Because it’s my own personal stuff and it’s none of their business.”
The principal of the school admits that the system tracks all of the tweets on a student’s account when he or she logs in on a school computer, so it is possible that Carroll posted the tweet while he was at home and then the school’s computer system registered it when he logged in again on a school computer later in the day.