A web site which rated the looks of girls about to enter a high school in the northern California community of Palo Alto “crossed the line of appropriateness, good taste and even sexual harassment as defined by the California Education Code,” according to Irv Rollins, the district’s assistant superintendent. A woman alerted the school about the site, and the school notified Geocities, the site’s Internet provider. Geocities removed the page because it violated “hate speech” guidelines. Palo Alto school officials do not know who authored the site, and they are not investigating it because the site creators did not break any laws. If students designed the page on school time and on school premises, the school would expel them for sexual harassment.
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