Does Your Student Use Facebook or My Space? Inquiring District Minds Want to Know
Well, not really but it might come to that. Boy, I missed this but here's a report from KOMO-tv about a new policy passed by the Board last night. From the article: What Seattle school students post on public sites such as Facebook or MySpace could get them in trouble -- even if done at home on their private computers, according to a new policy going into effect for the coming school year. For example, if you were to write, "I'm going to kick your butt" on another student's page and the school principal hears about it, they can do something about it, even if you wrote it from your iPhone miles away from campus. Apparently the district itself won't be monitoring the sites but if a parent or a student "alerts" them to something written online, they'll look into it. What if a over-zealous principal or counselor monitors the sites? Is that acceptable or only reports from outside the district? The reporter asks, "What about if a kid says...