Down in Dayton, the city’s public school system is putting a moratorium on Facebook friendships between students and teachers, a move that is so head-smackingly obvious it’s fairly disconcerting no one’s put a rule like this on the books already. This is the first instance in Ohio of such regulation.
The new policy also says Kotters can’t instant message or text with their Vinny Barbarinos or “respond to student-initiated attempts at conversation through nondistrict approved media, whether personal or professional accounts,” according to the Dayton Daily News.
This article appears in Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2011.
I have two separate accounts…a personal one I don’t friend students on, and a teacher one where I do. On my teacher account, I can answer questions, create groups, etc.
I agree with you Jennifer. If a district cannot afford to have a site in which a teacher can communicate with students outside the classroom why not create a FB page called Teacher Doe’s Classroom. The teacher, student and parents can view what is going on without interfering with personal accounts in one place.