Facebook: To View or not to View
We asked a high school teacher the following question:
Should a parent (or college) monitor a high school students Facebook account. Here is his answer:
As a parent, and a teacher, this question is one that I frequently discuss. On one side, I can understand why parents would want to monitor their child's account. After all, it is a dangerous world and high school students often don't know what is appropriate or potentially dangerous. As a teacher, I think that high school students should be left alone when it comes to Facebook since it is a just another means by which students socially interact. If a parent suspects any problems, then yes, I can see intervening. As far as a college viewing these accounts, I suspect that most are too busy to bother. I think parents should teach their children boundaries way before high school. Facebook is not the only way for children to get themselves in trouble.
C.Rios, high school teacher and parent
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posted by Teacher's View at
9:25 PM
3 Comments:
It may be a good website to see their personality but it would not be as accurate to choose a student. I know a ton of kids who academically are the perfect college student, but their facebook picture show pictures of them perhaps drinking, partying, even sexual poses, etc... One must remember they (im a teenaget too but not those nerd ones in all AP classes and partying at the same time) are teenagers and even if they have pictures they would not put on their living room, they still want to have fun and the fact that they are in AP classes, extracurricular activities, sports, work, etc... is enough to convince that that students DOES worry about his/her education and the future in college. In conclusion, facebook may be good just to see a student's personality, but not to judge base on the content in the website.
Absolutely not! This might be the answer you'd expect from a student, but I feel very strongly about this, especially in regard to college students. Students should certainly be able to report cyberbullying or other very inappropriate online content to a school administrator for help if it's relevant to students on-campus. Otherwise, faculty cannot patrol Facebook. I encountered this last year when I attended a small women's college--the faculty were all over Facebook. When students would get into political discussions that became heated, they began to threaten our freedom of speech by calling these debates "harassment" (which they obviously were not) and threatening us with disciplinary action if we continued to participate. This is an example of faculty following students FAR too closely. God knows what else they could try to call us on. I wouldn't be surprised if a faculty member made unethical judgements about certain students because they used profanity on the site. A school's job in regard to social networking sites is to keep students safe--that's IT. It is not their job to intervene in our free speech or social activities. Don't they honestly have better things to do?!
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Edit Liss said... No...I don't think that would be fair. If they want banning students from using facebook in the school WOULD BE FAIR. Because then the students are on school grounds. (Because the school has juristiction to stop them from using it.)
But even if that student is a nucence in class and a teacher wanted some way of getting the student in trouble, by checking his/her profile on FB that wouldn't be cool When the school does that that'd be black mail. Thats not what schools are here to do. They only have legal juristiction to punish the student (like the principals office or something) if their at school NOT HOME.
On the radio a while ago I listened to the morning talk show that had this discussusion. ALL the parents calling in pretty much said what I did. I think it would be wrong to have teachers/high schools/and colleges to check their facebook even if the murdered someone. Because that would mean their going on their "turf" so to speak without a search warrent. I don't want the "murderer" to get away naturally. But there were ways of catching that person before FB came along.
Now that was taking the FB thing to the EXTREME. But for now I don't think it's fair for schools/colleges to be snooping around in student's FB the same way schools/colleges shouldn't be snooping around their back packs or lockers without getting permission first. You know?
Personally, I would want schools/colleges/and possible employers to check out my facebook profile, because I'm a sheltered kid from home schooling so I don't worry about them seeing something on there except the picture of me playing "Chubby Bunny" with stuffing marshmellows in my mouth with my cousins on the 4th of July! LOL (just embarrassing pictures like that i don't want them to see).
Well, thanks for reading. Have a great day friends
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