[K12OSN] OT: "MySpace.com" or "policies for when computer use leads to assault and battery on campus"

[Timothy Hart]

I do not think we need someone to be hired to be the fascist read everything
the student does type of thing. In the future this will be less of a deal as
older people become as (if a little more) tech savy. I am pretty young
myself and am involved in a lot of the same activities as the "kids" (not
myspace but others). I get to lead by example. This isn't to say there are
problems, but I am very against total censorship of any kind.

On 1/24/06, Doug Simpson <simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us> wrote:
>
> HEAR! HEAR! but with $ and time at a premium, it will be hard for many
> districts to have someone to be able to sit down and read the blogs,
> provided they can find them in the first place. . .
>
> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> DeQueen Public Schools
> DeQueen, AR 71832
> simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
> Tux for President!
>
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Tom Hoffman wrote:
>
> > On 1/24/06, Doug Simpson <simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us> wrote:
> >
> > > If the posting happens off-campus, and the assault happens on campus,
> the
> > > only recourse there is is to handle it just like any other on-campus
> > > assault.  No matter what the cause.  That would be just like if a guy
> said
> > > something about someone's girlfriend at the local game room and the
> other
> > > guy beat someone up at school.
> >
> > Well, it isn't exactly like that.  Isn't it more like somebody put up
> > flyers on telephone poles saying "I'm gonna kick Dave Trask's ass
> > after school on Tuesday, signed Tom Hoffman?"
> >
> > The school may not be legally required to do anything, and they may or
> > may not be legally permitted to take formal disciplinary action, but
> > wouldn't you want to have some approprate adult speak to Dave and Tom
> > sometime about the issue before the end of school on Tuesday?
> >
> > My point here is that adults are being given access to information
> > about our students' lives that we generally don't get, so even as we
> > may be blocking and warning kids away from these sites, we should also
> > be teaching adults in our schools to *use* this data in ways that
> > aren't necessarily strictly punitive.
> >
> > --Tom
> >
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