In Massachusetts (and, I suspect, in New Hampshire), patrolling the online world for signs of misbehavior has become part of the job of teachers and administrators.

This is the part of the Globe story that gets me: "After Newton South officials spoke with students about the new policy,some expressed surprise, saying they thought the information theyposted was private." How can tech-savvy teens who have grown up in an online world can think of MySpace et al as "private" ? Odd ….