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Senate Lets Teachers, Students Be Facebook Friends
An anonymous reader writes "The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) has managed to secure another win in its battle against a new law regarding social networking with students. A repeal of the recently passed law has unanimously passed the Missouri state Senate."
I always wanted to be more than Facebook friend with my female school teachers.
A stupid law gets repealed.
Repent now.
Won't someone think of the children?
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
No really! Don't believe me? Check out my facebook pic.
Of course the teacher is my friend. For the same reason I went to the protest. For the same reason I joined her at the Wisconsin capitol. Yes, she's my friend... or should I say, "comrade".
Wasn't this law unanimously passed in the first place? Now that the stupidity of it has been unanimously agreed upon, they unanimously repeal it?
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...to include "Missouri" in the headline for clarity.
Mary Kay Leteurneau thanks you, Missouri!
Do parents no longer invite teachers over for dinner? When the flying fuck did becoming emotionally invested in the education and well-being of your charges become taboo?
Is how I read the article. I have said it before. There is no reason what so ever that any adult should have any relations with anyone under 18.
The more laws we make the more criminals we can find. I think everyone should be thrown in jail. It is the only way we can support the kids.
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Who the heck really wants to share the existing social retardation spewed out today with current and past teachers or professors? And what professors would want to be bombarded by useless communication from literally thousands of students a year. Congressional action was at most intrusive and unnecessary. My perspective does not form an opinion regarding "big" government, but this is just simply idiotic and a waste of time. This shows you how easily a congress can be influenced and swayed into any direction for illegitimate reasons.
If some event did spark the debate, then it further indicates the attention span and forethought capable by many members holding political power and responsibility. I'm sure that whatever happened is already covered through existing law and collegiate rules and regulations.
- Some random person
I recall hearing this, once upon a time: "Why would anyone want to be friends with a teenager? They don't know very much, and their taste in music stinks."
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
What Missouri law is suggesting teachers or students to keep them at length on Facebook, since they feel, teachers or students cannot be friend. The decision is orthodox. In the new perception, can't we make both of them more close, so that they can go along leaving any hitch beside. http://www.infosphaira.com/latestarticles.com
vishal dogra
This law went far beyond Facebook; (Zdnet said) it limited any internet communication that wasn't visible to both the school district and parents. It's nice that a judge indicated he was going to find it unconstitutional. That happens so seldom in this day and age.
Back to thinking about the children!
Won't anyone think of the children?
This law prevents teachers and students from communicating [anywhere that those conversations can be tracked, recorded, or monitored]. This way, if a student and teacher wanted to have an illicit conversation, they'd have to do it the old-fashioned way: in person and secretly.
Parents (If one can even use the plural in most cases) should have no right to dominate childrens' lives any more than the school system does or big media do. Child protection laws are all a sad joke which make bad assumptions about the intelligence of young people who happen to be below the age of 18. Due to child protection laws, a lot of young and talented people cannot find their place in the world until they are much older, this is wrong.
Parents very often do not recognise true potential in their kids and it should be up to the child as to who he/she communicates with in private. Teachers spend longer with classes of children at key times in any one given child's life than the parents do in many cases and teachers of specialist subjects are the best at identifying aptitude for a given subject. Students with an aptitude for a subject should get special attention to help them reach their true potential.
In addition, social networking is no more risky than keeping a student for face-to-face chat at the end of a class, when will people realise this?
...doesn't mean one should. In today's litigious society, a smart teacher would only interact with a student in official ways. No solo meetings, and certainly no media based contact. That simply has to be the way, until parents decide to abandon their hysteria.
In soviet russia, friends don't let friends befriend politicians and teachers on Facebook. Or something like that....
How gracious of our government to vote themselves to stay out of people's personal business. Lets be honest, the whole thing was just a bad idea, and an alienation of personal rights in the first place....
Teachers, like parents can't be friends with students/their children.
Friends are supposed to be equals, these other relationships are not.
Teachers and students can be friends only when the student has left that school. Parents and kids can only be friends when the kid has left home. Otherwise it's entirely inappropriate.
Also: Cool parent is an oxymoron.
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So why would teachers want that? I get the few actual points in the article, like if teachers use e-learning platforms like Moodle. But why would a teacher want to be friends with their students on Facebook? To be able to check up on them, see whether they behave in their spare time? Do students get bonus points when they post a Facebook status like "I did my geology homework first thing this morning. It was very interesting!"?
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
OK, this was a bad law and its repeal is a good idea, but how does it qualify as the Government sticking its nose where it doesn't belong? The teachers are government employees who have a government mandated relationship with the students. For the most part, the teachers would have no relationship with these students if it was not the law that these students must be in the classroom that the government hired these teachers to take charge of.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison