OBSERVATIONS, REPORTS, TIPS, REFERRALS AND TIRADES
August 6, 2011 by admin
Filed under Choosing Lingerie
NPR reports:
A law signed into law last month in Missouri is making waves nationally, this week. A small part of the wide-ranging SB54, makes it illegal for teachers to be “friends” with students on any social networking site that allows private communication…. State Rep. Chris Kelly, the sponsor of SB54, told us the bill does not ban teachers from communicating with students on Facebook or other social media sites. Kelly said it bans private communication. So, for example, while teachers and students can’t be “friends,” they can interact publicly on the wall of a “fan page.”
It seems like there ought to be a third way; one that would allow students and teachers maximum opportunities to communicate in appropriate, pedagogical ways yet not leave the door open for inappropriate communications.
How about allowing interaction only through Facebook and Twitter accounts to which school administrators have the password and full monitoring rights? Teachers who know that such accounts can and will be spot checked by their supervisors would be very unlikely to use them for bad purposes.
And isn’t more mischief done via cell-phone text messages, anyway?
