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Post by davecisar on Jul 6, 2009 14:55:23 GMT -6
Maybe what this is trying to prevent is some innappropriate communication from teachers to children due to the social media craze. Most teachers (99%) probably have great myspace and facebook sites.
OTOH you have "backwards hat guy" coach, 35 going on 17 that has his drinking exploits and tail chasing exploits detailed on those sites. Maybe he loves being on his players level and loves life on the edge. Non school Messages back and forth from those sites lower the barrier from Teacher- student to peer-peer. My guess is that's where the problem is.
Maybe the intent is to also save those 1% of coaches from themselves and 16-18 year old females, as well as the impressionable students they work with. Myspace, facebook and twitter werent around 5 years ago, now students know more than ever about their teachers private lives and same goes for teachers knowing about students. We live in a different age.
In college I hung out with a 41 year old prof going on 22. He had new Vet, 1100 Motorcycle, went out to the bars every night, and all kinds of girls from his classes over etc. dangerous stuff, playing with fire.
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Post by wjk1214 on Jul 9, 2009 12:51:25 GMT -6
I would contact your lawyer (BOE or County School District) and get a legal opinion regarding this issue. That's all we need is for a Football Coach, who is try to do the right thing, or anyother couch for that matter, to be accused of violating this law and there career be blemished or terminated. It happened here in North Carolina to a young assistant soccer coach who was communicating with a female student/athlete. That's how they busted him by reviewing his text messages and emails to her. But he had alternative motives and was not doing the right thing. Non-professional.
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Post by bobgoodman on Jul 9, 2009 17:51:16 GMT -6
That's my guess as to its main thrust. Because nobody's allowed to exercise judgement any more, they had to come up with a technical catch. But it'll be used to harass teachers for reasons unrelated to the intent of the new law.
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