NYC Teachers Can’t Friend Students On Facebook
New guidelines were released by the New York City Department of Education that define how teachers can and cannot use Facebook and other social networks.
Since the bold emergence of social media, school officials nationwide are ever tussling over what to do about the surge of social networking that actively engages school-age kids and digital tools in the classroom on which they are readily accessed.
From cyber-bullying to inappropriate teacher-student interactions, there’s no shortage of new foibles to try to prevent from occurring in the largely lawless digital age.
In an effort to keep one form of possible social-media misuse under wraps, new guidelines were released by the New York City Department of Education that define how teachers can and cannot use Facebook and other social networks, The New York Times reported.
According to the new rules and regulations, New York City public school teachers are not allowed to directly connect with their students on Facebook and other social networks.
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