Get Off Facebook and Pay a Fine, or Get Kicked Out of School
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[quote]FOR Facebook users at a Hasidic all-girls high school in New York it's either Exodus - or expulsion.
Students at the Orthodox Beth Rivkah High School have been ordered to immediately delete their accounts on the popular social-networking site and pay a $100 fine, or be kicked out of the school.
"Girls are getting killed on the internet - that's the reason for it," Benzion Stock, administrator of the Crown Heights school, said.
Stock said Facebook is also off-limits because it encourages girls to violate the Orthodox code of modesty.
"The internet is a good way to ruin marriages and families," Stock said. "We don't want them there, period. It's the wrong place for a Jewish girl to be. Facebook is not a modest thing to do. Socialising on Facebook could lead to the wrong things."
The edict became the talk of the neighbourhood after several 11th graders at the school last week were found to have illicit Facebook pages and were forced to pay the fine.
Chaya Tatik, 17, said she was booted from Beth Rivkah as a ninth-grader for using Facebook and dressing immodestly.
"It's not right that they're keeping them from such a thing," said Tatik, who is now a senior at Bnos Chomesh Academy.
"Everyone uses Facebook. It's a way to communicate. I communicate with my cousins from Israel, who I don't get to see that much.
"Blocking them from using it gives them hatred ... They want to take revenge and rebel. I know because I've experienced it."
Several students and parents noted that a fundraising plea on Beth Rivkah's own website asks followers to "do a mitzvah!" and sign up for Facebook in hopes of winning money for the school.
Read more: [url]http://www.news.com.au/technology/new-york-jewish-school-tells-students-to-get-off-facebook-or-get-kicked-out/story-e6frfro0-1226313834864#ixzz1qUgBM0sg[/url]
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Hurrrr... every woman on Facebook gets raped and killed.
It puzzles me what goes through the heads of some school principals
there are just way too many types of wrong right here
"Girls are getting killed on the internet - that's the reason for it"
Someone's been watching Tron: Legacy.
Let's restrict their access to information, it's not like we live in the modern world or anything.
This is rather hard to believe, even with a reputable source covering it. How can people be so fucking stupid?
[quote=OP]Stock said Facebook is also off-limits because it encourages girls to violate the Orthodox code of modesty.
"The internet is a good way to ruin marriages and families," Stock said. "We don't want them there, period. It's the wrong place for a Jewish girl to be. Facebook is not a modest thing to do. Socialising on Facebook could lead to the wrong things."[/quote]
Oh god, the levels of stupid and misinformed right there... You know what kids? Just stay inside, don't talk to people, and whatever you do, don't develop any kind of opinion of your own. You might get the wrong ideas, and we can't have you having ideas that we disagree with!
To be fair, it is an Orthodox school. While the repercussions are severe, no doubt, there's plenty of other perfectly lenient schools out there, even other Jewish schools.
If the school is exclusive and students/families are enrolling there on their own volition, then they should be expected to abide by the rules of the institution.
e: rate me bad reading. They're punishing the girls for just [I]having[/I] facebook pages? That should be way beyond the school's agenda.
[QUOTE=l l;35340984]This is rather hard to believe, even with a reputable source covering it. How can people be so fucking stupid?[/QUOTE]
Fundamental religion.
I'm not really that surprised, seeing as it is a religious school.
[QUOTE=Symmetry;35341097]e: rate me bad reading. They're punishing the girls for just [I]having[/I] facebook pages? That should be way beyond the school's agenda.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for reminding me that they removed the bad reading rating, now i'm gonna go cry in a corner.
I'll never, ever understand people who think they should be allowed to control what other people do in their spare time.
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;35341169]I'll never, ever understand people who think they should be allowed to control what other people do in their spare time.[/QUOTE]
because this text written by goat farmers two thousand years ago says so or something
Must suck to be on such a dumbass school.
[quote]"The internet is a good way to ruin marriages and families," Stock said. "We don't want them there, period. It's the wrong place for a Jewish girl to be. Facebook is not a modest thing to do. Socialising on Facebook could lead to the wrong things."[/quote]
Oh it's one of those "proper" all girl schools isn't it?
[QUOTE]"Socialising on Facebook could lead to the wrong things."[/QUOTE]
It could also lead to great things, like new friendships being created.
I don't think this is the correct option in balancing society with technology.
[QUOTE=l l;35340984]This is rather hard to believe, even with a reputable source covering it. How can people be so fucking stupid?[/QUOTE]
The actions of the Ultra Orthodox tend to be nutters. They want to be segregated, separate facilities and bus seating and whatnot for men and women.
It's like the Civil Rights Movement all over again, except in [I]reverse[/I].
it's for their safety!!
100$ fine is also for their safety!
they're orthodox jews, this is just what they do.
it starts with facebook, it ends with celebrating christmas with their girlfriends in williamsburg while making art protesting virginal glorification.
Isn't that extortion?
I didn't use my real name for my Facebook account so that things like this (people connecting a Facebook account to me, not Orthodox Jews getting angry at me) couldn't happen.
I can understanding deleting their facebook, but paying a $100 fine is just ridiculous.
I'm interested as to what would happen if one of them discovered what happens if you choke on food and died
Unintelligent people.. That's the only thing there is to say. They are so bound to their lame beliefs that they go in the way of their spare time.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;35340980]Let's restrict their access to information, it's not like we live in the modern world or anything.[/QUOTE]
It's an orthodox Jewish school.
What the hell do you expect?
Late here, its a known fact that facebook is a bigger hazard for one's relationship with another than anything else, but this is just over the top.
[quote]"Socialising on Facebook could lead to the wrong things."[/quote]
Let me tell you a secret. Living almost always leads to wrong things. It's scientifically proved that living people do "wrong thing" much often than dead ones.
Let's kill everyone, alright?
heheh. get off facebook AND pay $100
oh jews
[QUOTE=Mr.Fancy_hat;35342125]It's an orthodox Jewish school.
What the hell do you expect?[/QUOTE]
Should send the students to an actual school instead.
I couldn't read the article, I got angry by the 5th paragraph
I'd prefer getting kicked out tbh, they have no right to control the social networks you use ever.
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