Internet erasing classroom boundaries
Saturday January 19, 2013, 11:40 PM
BY DENISA R. SUPERVILLE
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Teachers and other school employees across the country are discovering — often the hard way — that they can get into hot water for what they say and post on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, even when those comments are made on their own time, on their personal pages and not intended for the public.
At the same time, school districts are grappling with how to set appropriate boundaries in an age when using social networking sites is almost second nature to teachers and students.
It’s a relatively new frontier in which school administrators must balance employees’ rights to free speech against the desire to create safe learning environments, while simultaneously weighing the potential educational costs if those policies are too restrictive.
Some teachers and their advocates have argued that the few headline-grabbing missteps are anomalies, and common sense and good judgment are what’s needed.
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