Big brother watches MySpace at US University and gets sued

Be careful of what you post on MySpace or anywhere else on the Internet because Big Brother is watching and will punish you. That's the message made loud and clear by two educational institutions in the US state of Pennsylvania, one of which is being sued by their victim a former student teacher. Stacy Snider, a 27 year old unmarried mother, was reportedly denied her teaching diploma in 2006 after her supervisor at Conestoga Valley High School, where she was putting in classroom time, told her she was unprofessional for posting a photo of herself drinking at a Halloween party on her MySpace page. The pic of Ms Snyder in a pirate hat drinking from a plastic cup looks innocent enough but it had the caption "Drunken Pirate". Ms Snyder's apparently outraged supervisor felt that the photo encouraged under age drinking even though she was 25. The trainee teacher was ordered to leave and the school allegedly pressured the student's college, Millersville University, to deny her a teaching license. The university complied with the school's request and substituted Ms Snyder's teaching diploma for an Arts English degree.