I just found out via Pamil Visions EWritings, a very informative online public relations blog, that a 16 years old blogger was expelled from his school because of some of the articles he published on his blog. The blogger, Ariel Constantinof, blogs about that (Romanian language), with a shade of humor: after being expelled and sent home by the school board of directors, the school exit guardian (nea Vasile) did not allow him to get out! That happened on April 18th. Meanwhile, from Ariel’s posts it seems that they re-admitted him in that school (after he was invited to speak at several national radio stations), in which he had been learning for about 8 years, being a very good student in all this time.
Ariel seems very passionate about blogging, his site is about 9 months old and more than 500 posts already (with tons of comments). He is also generous, setting blogs for some of his friends as subdomains of his blog.
Do you know other similar stories of bloggers affected in their offline life by the things they write online?
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Does anyone know what the official word from the school was, as to why Ariel was expelled, like the official statement?
this is what I was thinking about at work today when i was so tempted to post something, anything since I haven’t had the time to do the same for a few days – so timely.. and it would have severe consequences for an adult blogging from work
Look at my source, Bes, as it contains a bit more info regarding the school (which is supposed to be one of the good schools of Bucharest).
@Pearl: the boy was never blogging from school. He was doing it in his free time. This is why it was all so unfair.
Oh shucks – I just read the whole thing – this is such a shame.. my mistake – I hadn’t read the whole thing..
Hi Simonne. Yes, I checked the links and the other links within the source also, and unfortunately, unless I am not paying enough attention, I cannot find anyone saying or mentioning the official word from the school. It would be interesting and important to know what the school said about their decision, and to know the actual decision and announcement also. No matter what the reason, right now many people are taking one side without actually finding out or knowing what the school actually said when it decided to expel the student.
I will keep looking into the links, thanks.
I’ll try to get in touch with Ariel, maybe he can tell us more about that.
@ Bes: That’s because there was NO official word from the school. They were just trying to intimidate the kid into not blogging about the hypocrisy of the teachers. Believe me, I used harsher terms in my entry about this injustice than Ariel in all his posts. Ariel used satire to send out a clear message: he wants the teachers to teach. After all, that school, which by the way is not the best school in Bucharest, is a private school and every kid needs to pay for education. It’s only natural to request professionalism from the ones that are supposed to be your mentors.
Thank you so much, Mihaela, for your clarifications. It is hard to believe that such things can happen. I was so sorry when I read your article, that I felt the need to share it with my readers.
And welcome to my blog. I’m glad you are here.
Mihaela Lica, thanks for clarifying! That makes more sense on why such a case is probably bad for the student in question. Having no official word from a school, simply because of [probably] the age of the student in question is bad. At least the parents should be given the reason or pointed to the exact post or writing in question that may have offended or done some supposed harm.
Thanks again! I really appreciate your reply on this.