Social Media Exchanges and Teacher/Student Boundaries

I am honor that you think that I am such a threat to your selling your nonsense you would keep going to the trouble of creating postings that contain no other content.

You also overlook the fact that teachers want to protect themselves as well as their students. It is the educators themselves who are the ones addressing and tackling this issue.

Whereas obviously MALE teachers shoud be restrained as thay r,
there is no reason to impose restraints upon female teachers.

And, as Dr. Charol Shakeshaft pointed out in that article, teachers can keep their communications with students open, transparent, and safe.

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And, as Dr. Charol Shakeshaft pointed out in that article, teachers can keep their communications with students open, transparent, and safe.

Seems we had gone beyond safe sex to safe communications!!!!!

In any case, due to the witch hunt mentality that people like you are you busy creating that there are witches oh sorry pedophiles hiding behind every school locker teachers are nerves about being wrongly charge however increasing the fear is not going to be helpful in that regards either.

In any case, due to the witch hunt mentality that people like you are you busy creating that there are witches oh sorry pedophiles hiding behind every school locker teachers are nerves about being wrongly charge...

The New York Times
December 17, 2011
Rules to Stop Pupil and Teacher From Getting Too Social Online
By JENNIFER PRESTON

Faced with scandals and complaints involving teachers who misuse social media, school districts across the country are imposing strict new guidelines that ban private conversations between teachers and their students on cellphones and online platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

The policies come as educators deal with a wide range of new problems. Some teachers have set poor examples by posting lurid comments or photographs involving sex or alcohol on social media sites. Some have had inappropriate contact with students that blur the teacher-student boundary. In extreme cases, teachers and coaches have been jailed on sexual abuse and assault charges after having relationships with students that, law enforcement officials say, began with electronic communication.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/business/media/rules-to-limit-how-teachers-and-students-interact-online.html?_r=1&hpw[/images]

I don't know any teachers who want to talk to their pupils on anything other than official school channels. As a teacher you want to protect yourself. Bill wants to make innocent people look guilty, so the guilty can pass unnoticed.

Jamestown teacher facing charges involving sexual activity with children
Dec 21, 2011

JAMESTOWN, PA - A Jamestown teacher is in custody facing charges involving sexual activity with children.

28-year-old Kevin DeFrancesco of Greenville is charged with multiple counts of unlawful conduct with a minor, child pornography, sexual abuse of children, indecent exposure, and open lewdness.

The investigation began when school officials reported that a 13-year-old girl had received inappropriate text messages from a teacher. A second alleged victim has since been identified.
http://www.wfmj.com/story/16369529/jamestown-teacher-facing-charges-involving-sexual-activity-with-children

I can conceive of a student wishing to confide private information to a teacher,
not to be broadcast to the World
nor to any Tom, Dick or Harry who is spying.

Bill is such a ******* moron. I don't know any teachers who want to talk to their pupils on anything other than official school channels. As a teacher you want to protect yourself. Bill wants to make innocent people look guilty, so the guilty can pass unnoticed. I don't need to ask why.

I can conceive of a student wishing to confide private information to a teacher,
not to be broadcast to the World
nor to any Tom, Dick or Harry who is spying.

BillRM also conveniently ignores the fact that there are some teachers who do engage in inappropriate communications with students--that's part of his denial "so the guilty can pass unnoticed".

That's why students can meet with teachers privately, after class, in school.

Whereas obviously MALE teachers shoud be restrained as thay r,
there is no reason to impose restraints upon female teachers.

That's not true, David.

Female teachers have become involved in inappropriate relationships with young teenage males--even if you do not consider such relationships harmful, others, including legislators and law enforcement, do regard them as harmful.

And female teachers can become inappropriately involved with female students. This is a current case in the news. The teacher took inappropriate photos of her third grade students, and she used Skype to have them video chat with another pedophile via computer.
http://www.news-star.com/news/x795106199/Former-McLoud-teacher-Uncle-G-charged-in-child-porn-case

Female teachers have become involved in inappropriate relationships
with young teenage males--even if you do not consider such
relationships harmful, others, including legislators and law
enforcement, do regard them as harmful.

So a text message or email is a danger to a student but not an in person private meeting!!!!!!!!!!!

The only thing such rules will do is to interfere with the vast vast vast numbers of teachers doing their jobs

That's why students can meet with teachers privately, after class, in school.

So a text message or email is a danger to a student but not an in person private meeting!!!!!!!!!!!

Have you lost your mind completely???????

Sorry I do not know how it was in merry old england

Duh. Electronic communications between teachers and students, particularly those using social media, are the issue in this thread.

People are not questioning the appropriateness of a teacher meeting with a student on school property to discuss school-related matters. Such meetings have always gone on, and will continue to go on.