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Old Aug 23rd, 2011, 10:10 AM   #1
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The Missouri State Teachers Association has filed a suit challenging the constitutionality of a new state law, due to take effect this week, that restricts private online communication between teachers and students.



The Missouri law, according to the suit, improperly “makes it unlawful for school teachers to communicate with their children, relatives, church youth group members, and even newspaper reporters who happen to be current or former students using Facebook-type web sites or by many of the other popular and increasingly indispensable computer and cell phone based technologies in wide-spread use in society today.”

The teachers have asked a state court to block the law from taking effect.

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