Can you sue a school for violation for privacy?

[Hannah]

My school has started doing something so idiotic that I can't stand it anymore. They've decided to go through our personal emails with out our permission. And since we use our emails to sign into things they can see my Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, and any other site I go on. I don't have anything to hide but its still violating my rights of privacy. The school didn't even warn us about this until my teacher told me yesterday.
So is this a good enough reason to sue my high school?
If you were to log into your personal email at the school they could save it and look at it later for record keeping. -That's what my teacher told us.

[rafferty]

You can sue if you have enough money to hire an attorney. You won't win though.

[Alika]

I did not spread up my name all over the internet .Because I had a right "mentor".
And now suck it for your own stupidity.

[Mutt]

Don't give them your password for your email. They can't get in without the password. And if they absolutely demand it, get a free email account (like Yahoo or Gmail), and give them that. There's not rules that you are only allowed one email account. I have 5 emails myself, 2 free ones that I never use other than spam (unless it's a site I really want then to contact me, I give them my free account, which I never read).

[Duck-Duck Goose!]

You can sue anyone you like, but in this instance you have no case....the Supreme Court already ruled that there IS no "right to privacy" regarding e-mail messages (for the same reason you have no right to privacy regarding anything you might write on a picture-postcard you put in the regular mail)....

ANYONE who wants to (and has a High School education in internet technology) can easily look at your e-mail...

I can even see where you are! http://www.whatismyipaddress.com

Pay more attention in Science Class!

[Paul Jackson]

"They've decided to go through our personal emails with out our permission."
How did they get your passwords? Something is missing from this story.

" If you were to log into your personal email at the school they could save it and look at it later for record keeping."

Sounds fishy. I have a hard time believing your school has the right to keystroke log your passwords and access your accounts with them. Change your password. Create an email account that you only use while you are on school computers.

"ANYONE who wants to (and has a High School education in internet technology) can easily look at your e-mail..."

They could look the email you opened and sent on their computers, but they couldn't access the mailbox without stealing the password.

[Maxi]

You can 'sue' who you want, but that is the rules set out by the school abide by them or find a new school

[Who]

It kind of sounds more like a scare tactic to keep you kids from getting on your email/Facebook/etc at school. So just don't.

[Inda Cloud]

If students are getting on personal accounts at school, using school property, then the it guys already have this info.

Then they have your logins at school for computers and they know exactly what you're doing, when and how. The second you log in to something inside school or outside of school, it gets logged.