Kellykins1218
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- Mar 4, 2012
Well, Monday our Board voted to go back 5 days a week. Yesterday, our Health Department decided that all the schools in our county should go virtual for the 1st 9 weeks.
Yes, if the county has jurisdiction over if other places should close.
Private schools should be held to one of two standards:
1) The same as public schools. They are schools, after all.
2) Whatever rules business have to follow, so do private schools. Mask requirements, capacity limits, etc.
This is generally not true, although there are some local exceptions.
Since the school is a public place, unless the images are being used for commercial or exploitative purposes, generally the images can be used. Some states make additional limitations if there is attribution of names of those pictured in the photo if the subject of the photo is a minor.
Where confusion sometimes comes in is that the school may not film students without the consent of the parents. So, for instance, when I went to get my National Board recertification, I had to get parental permissions for each of the classes that needed to be videotaped, and to find a way to not videotape any students whose parents wouldn't give that permission.
Also, schools have sometimes cracked down on students when they use such filming to harass other students when it has an effect on the videotaped students' ability to access schools under local harassment, intimidation, and bullying laws.
It is hard to definitively argue that a recording of the conditions in the hallway of a recently opened school rise to harassment, intimidation, and bullying of students. This is a school system trying to cover itself from potential litigation and nothing more.
Edited for clarity, grammar, spelling.
Many schools have rules in place that state that students cannot take photos or record while in school, on school grounds, etc., and many require cell phones to be in lockers and/or turned off. If that’s the case, I’m sure they could use that to try to go after the whistleblowers. Whether that’s successful or not is another matter, but they could likely try.
This is generally not true, although there are some local exceptions.
Since the school is a public place, unless the images are being used for commercial or exploitative purposes, generally the images can be used. Some states make additional limitations if there is attribution of names of those pictured in the photo if the subject of the photo is a minor.
Where confusion sometimes comes in is that the school may not film students without the consent of the parents. So, for instance, when I went to get my National Board recertification, I had to get parental permissions for each of the classes that needed to be videotaped, and to find a way to not videotape any students whose parents wouldn't give that permission.
Also, schools have sometimes cracked down on students when they use such filming to harass other students when it has an effect on the videotaped students' ability to access schools under local harassment, intimidation, and bullying laws.
It is hard to definitively argue that a recording of the conditions in the hallway of a recently opened school rise to harassment, intimidation, and bullying of students. This is a school system trying to cover itself from potential litigation and nothing more.
Edited for clarity, grammar, spelling.
Wow. I have never heard of any school that prohibits students from taking cell phone pictures while on campus. That’s totally a new one for me.Many schools have rules in place that state that students cannot take photos or record while in school, on school grounds, etc., and many require cell phones to be in lockers and/or turned off. If that’s the case, I’m sure they could use that to try to go after the whistleblowers. Whether that’s successful or not is another matter, but they could likely try.
So what say you DIS? Should counties be able to keep private schools closed as well as public schools?
Every high school football game covered by my home town paper publishes pics of the student section during games. I doubt they had every parents permission to do that. Kids post pics of themselves in school all the time, this is different only because the school is doing a very poor job of opening.They responsibly don't want students to start trying to shame one another on social media. I agree that masks should be required, but students publishing pics of their unmasked classmates online isn't the way to do it. Students have the right not to be photographed at school & have their photos published at online without their parents' consent. They're minors & have that right of privacy when at school.
Apparently they realized that the suspension was just calling more attention to the problems.
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