Re: [LM_NET] cyber bullying and Formspring

[Susan Grigsby <susan.grigsby@GMAIL.COM>]

Not at my school but with my children. I have forbidden them from having an
account after one of them left the computer unattended and still logged into
Formspring and I saw the hate speech and ugliness written on their accounts
by their "friends." It's horrible. It's completely anonymous, the language
is appalling, and whoever came up with this idea needs to have their head
examined. susan

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Marsha Redd <marsharedd@hotmail.com>wrote:

> Interesting article in small paper. Anyone notice an issue in your school
> with Formspring?
> http://linkyy.com/MF
>
>
> Marsha Redd
> Librarian, Kelloggsville High School
> Grand Rapids, MI
> marsharedd@hotmail.com
> Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student.
> Everyone is a teacher.
>
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-- 
Susan Grigsby, Teacher-Librarian
Past-President, GLMA
Elkins Pointe Middle School
Roswell, Georgia
susan.grigsby@gmail.com
"It is more than ironic that school districts are willing to spend hundreds
of thousands of dollars on reading programs and staff development which
*have
had limited success* in boosting test scores, but are unwilling to invest in
school library programs that show direct
correlations <http://www.lrs.org/impact.php> to student success."
~ Douglas Achterman,  2008 Study of California School Libraries

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