Posted on 03/28/2015 5:58:02 PM PDT by servo1969
O’Fallon Superintendent Dr. Darcy G. Benway recently sent this letter out to parents.
Dear Parents and Guardians:
Pursuant to Illinois School Code (105 ILCS 75/15), OTHS is required to notify parents/guardians that we may request or require a student to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student’s account or profile on a social networking website if the district has reasonable cause to believe that the student’s account on a social networking website contains evidence that the student has violated a disciplinary rule or policy.
This email serves as that notification.
Thank you.
Dr. Darcy G. Benway, OTHS Superintendent
Sure enough Illinois State Law 105 ILCS 75/15 allows schools to demand social networking passwords.
Sec. 15. Notification. An elementary or secondary school must provide notification to the student and his or her parent or guardian that the elementary or secondary school may request or require a student to provide a password or other related account information in order to gain access to the student’s account or profile on a social networking website if the elementary or secondary school has reasonable cause to believe that the student’s account on a social networking website contains evidence that the student has violated a school disciplinary rule or policy. The notification must be published in the elementary or secondary school’s disciplinary rules, policies, or handbook or communicated by similar means.
(Source: P.A. 98-129, eff. 1-1-14.)
Proper response would be, "Dear commissars, go pound sand until you figure out what the Constitution says about such despotism."
You are of course correct and I meant absolutely no disrespect to "cops" in any way. We know most of the local county police that patrol our area -- all stand up guys.
Thank you.
Odd. A freeper who favors government intrusion into areas a parent would ordinarily cover.
Takes all kinds, I guess.
So “educators” have been turned into “social police” regarding what students do off campus, on their own time, in the public realm.
Some of them can say the act is necessary vis-a-vis “cyber bullying”. Well, if “cyber bulling” is a “crime” then any investigation and adjudication of it belongs with law enforcement, prosecutors and courts, not “educators” and their schools. And, as such, it would require law enforcement to show cause with a judge, to obtain a subpoena to get access to a students personal “social” digital accounts.
Notice also the educators did not and do not object to becoming a law enforcement arm of the state, in matters that take place outside of the school.
Whatever happened to parents teaching their children the wise old saying “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me”, and adding the instruction that other kids that do mean things are to be ignored, not worried about. They, the bullys, are the lesser beings. No. Modern parents allow their kids to get too involved in the virtual world and to take too seriously the quickly passing social phenomena of their teen years.
No.
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They should just say NO.
Password? no way, ever
Shame to teach young people how to keep a faux account at such a young age. I’m not in favor of too young of a presence on there, or on young people doing things I wouldn’t want them to do, but I’ll be damned if I’d make my kids be watched by Big Daddy. Me, yes, Big Daddy, no.
Then if you get notification of the possibility, you can take care of it. If the kid doesn’t know it, there’s no possibility of sharing it with Big Daddy Government.
Maybe YOUR kids aren’t smart enough. Take after you? My kids take after me, they are plenty smart enough.
I do too. Plus parents that stay involved. You’d be shocked at the parents that stay home and STILL aren’t “involved”
Ummmm....threw?!
That’s what happens when you allow your children to bond to the government authorities.
Oh, Know!
Thank you for letting me have a pass on the correction. I just HAD to do it!!!! And I feel so much better now! LOL
Why are we surprised that cliques form ( protection gangs) and that there is bullying in the schools?
In many ways, institutional schools ( especially huge government schools) resemble prisons. All First Amendment Rights are strictly suppressed. They are marched around to the sound of bells like prisoners. They are told when to eat, rest, and exercise. Their buildings look like prisons. Like prisoners they have no freedom of assembly and their associates are chosen by the government. The outside spaces look like prison exercise yards.
In some ways prisoners have it better. The food is better. They are not segregated by age. The economic and social diversity of prisons is better since prisoners are not assigned by zip code. And....Prisoners are not subjected to NON-stop godless secular indoctrination.
Are you having a stroke?
Prayers up!
Are you having a stroke?
Prayers up!
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