This is very much like when my first superintendent told me never to give a
student a ride in my car, no matter what. Do colleges and bosses of new
teachers no longer caution new teachers about inappropriate student contact
and being careful about how things look?
Jenni Davidson
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Jennifer Davidson
jdavidson@usd393.net
District Librarian
USD 393
Solomon, KS
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Sarles Patricia (18K500) <
PSarles@schools.nyc.gov> wrote:
> Gail said:
>
> "I think we would all be wise to take a wait and see attitude because I
> think it's just a matter of time before some educator will be charged with
> an offense (guilty or not) through a Facebook type of contact."
>
> Nancy said:
>
> "This is already happening. The school attorneys have been telling me that
> they are having increasing problems with this. It just has not hit the news
> in a major way. Usually, they just fire the teacher and hope nothing hits
> the media. "
>
> This is not exactly about a teacher, but it is about a person in some kind
> of authority over his charges.
>
> "A PRISON officer has been sacked after 13 criminals, including a murderer,
> were discovered among friends on his Facebook page."
>
> http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25234866-663,00.html
>
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> "Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months
> passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so
> truly free in my life." - Malcolm X
>
> "Some kids go to the library ... Others to the street. But they can't go to
> the libraries if the libraries are closed." - Officer Dombranski, NYPD
>
> "The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize
> with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings. So you
> don’t have to write a preachy book to do that. You just have to make it a
> fun book with characters they care about, and they will become better people
> as a result." - Louis Sachar
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of Nancy
> Willard
> Sent: Mon 3/23/2009 10:42 PM
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: One more FB Comment
>
> Gail said
>
> I think =
> > we would all be wise to take a wait and see attitude because I think it's
> j=
> > ust a matter of time before some educator will be charged with an offense
> (=
> > guilty or not) through a Facebook type of contact.
>
> This is already happening. The school attorneys have been telling me that
> they are having increasing problems with this. It just has not hit the news
> in a major way. Usually, they just fire the teacher and hope nothing hits
> the media.
>
> One member of this list communicated privately to me telling me of a young
> teacher in her district who simply got headed in the wrong direction with a
> student - fortunately stopped before any actual physical involvement. But
> he
> is not teaching in the district any more.
>
> The problem is not older more established teachers who have been around the
> block more than a few times - and who are unlikely to be ones who students
> are going to flirt with (no offense intended - I would put myself into that
> category also ;-)). The problem is setting an environment where this is
> perceived to be acceptable for all teachers.
>
> The younger teachers who are the ones far more likely to get into trouble.
> They are more likely to be actively socializing on FB, have adult friends
> who are also really into socializing, and simply have not yet been in the
> position to recognize and know how to deal with situations when students
> have formed a crush - and they are also the ones who are more likely to
> have
> students interested in them for relationship purposes.
>
> These are the young teachers who are going to get into trouble. I am not
> talking about the true predator type. I am talking about young teachers who
> are simply going to get into a trap and not recognize that they have until
> things have gotten into a place where their jobs and credibility have been
> very damaged. And were it not for FB communications I do not think this
> harm
> would occur.
>
> I have spent a long time researching and thinking about how use of
> technologies can interfere with ethical decision-making. This is ever since
> when I was an attorney in the 80's (told you I was old) and I was giving
> lectures to teachers and librarians on copyright laws and those 5 inch
> floppies. I would have teachers/librarians say things: But nobody ever gets
> caught. The software is too expensive. The companies are making big bucks,
> and we schools have nothing. I'm doing it for the kids. So I have spent a
> long time reflecting on online decision-making.
>
> Interacting with students online will lead some younger teachers - who
> would
> not otherwise engage in inappropriate behavior with students - to do so. I
> guarantee you this is happening and will happen. Which is why I strongly
> believe that this is a practice that should be prohibited.
>
> AND I would equally as strongly argue that it is ESSENTIAL that schools
> establish web 2.0 environments that are for students and teachers to
> interact in an educational - non-social - environment. We can't prepare
> students for their future in classrooms designed to serve our past!
>
> Nancy
> --
> Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D.
> Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
> http://csriu.org
> http://cyberbully.org
> http://cyber-safe-kids.com
> http://csriu.wordpress.com
> nwillard@csriu.org
>
> Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online
> Social
> Aggression, Threats, and Distress (Research Press)
>
> Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the
> Internet Safely and Responsibly (Jossey-Bass)
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