Holton is forcing all student organizations to delete their instagram pages

[Anonymous]

Does Holton allow for parents to opt out of their child's image on social media? Our private school was actually considering allowing a parent run athletics account, but the opt-outs made it tricky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our it sounds like they are doing what a responsible school would do and have control over school social media. The club is an extension of the school.

I see no drama here

Pretty sure Stone Ridge has the same policy. There are good reasons not to let students create Insta accounts that purport to represent the school, even if the cause is a good one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this because of belt-skirt gate?

They only want to show belt skirts on their public pages. Girl POWER! Don’t look, pervs!

[Anonymous]

I think this is a good move in terms of security and privacy, especially referring to girls only by their last initial, not full name.

I intentionally don't post anything about my kids on social media. I'm the CEO of a small, boring company (accounting) but my public identity is prominent since I give a lot of talks at conferences. I've recently been the target of sophisticated scammers who look up my details online and then threaten to send messages to my friends/family/employees about how I'm doing something crazy (buying drugs, soliciting underage people, etc) if I don't pay up. They generate fake screenshots of conversations I'm supposedly having. I've just been glad no one knows the names of my kids so they aren't targeted. I can deal with it, but it would be traumatizing for them.

[Anonymous]

If the school hasn't had control over school clubs social media, this sounds like a good idea. Shocked that a private school didn't lock this sort of social media down from the start.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the school hasn't had control over school clubs social media, this sounds like a good idea. Shocked that a private school didn't lock this sort of social media down from the start.

They may not have known.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the school hasn't had control over school clubs social media, this sounds like a good idea. Shocked that a private school didn't lock this sort of social media down from the start.

This is incredibly hard to do it. There's dozen of these (not talking about Holton specifically), it's not clear who runs them (sometimes that person has graduated), the same club sometimes has multiple accounts, etc.

[Anonymous]

Ignoring the "nerd club" troll comment, this is in line with them shutting down the college acceptance pages that every class at every school has been doing for the past decade

It seems like a very hierarchical, control-freak kind of thing to do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the school hasn't had control over school clubs social media, this sounds like a good idea. Shocked that a private school didn't lock this sort of social media down from the start.

They may not have known.

For a small private school, that's inexcusable.

[Anonymous]

I think inexcusable is a bit harsh. They may just not have known. I have never thought that the number of clubs my DDs are on even have an IG. Is that “inexcusable”?! Holton SM covers those accomplishments whether for sports, theater, debate, modelUN, DECA, community service initiatives, and the plethora of other club activities. Seemed to suffice to me and I enjoy seeing all of these fantastic accomplishments ur these hard working young women show up in my feed. Why would they or I be hunting down an unofficial IG account that I don’t even know the handle of? You, PP, are either clueless as to all this all works or has a younger kid who you assume will not ever ever be on SM without your explicit permission.

Your tolerance level of what is inexcusable is inexcusable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignoring the "nerd club" troll comment, this is in line with them shutting down the college acceptance pages that every class at every school has been doing for the past decade

It seems like a very hierarchical, control-freak kind of thing to do

+1

Exactly, a lot of schools make kids have disclaimer on their college matriculation pages that they aren’t affiliated with the school. Can’t they just do that for clubs? I expect there won’t be a student run college page for Holton in ‘26 now.

[Anonymous]

Doesn’t HA SM (insta, youtube, fb, etc.) cover all school activities? Why would a club need its own SM presence separate from the school that makes the club possible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignoring the "nerd club" troll comment, this is in line with them shutting down the college acceptance pages that every class at every school has been doing for the past decade

It seems like a very hierarchical, control-freak kind of thing to do

It's the right thing to do. And OP is a loser if she denigrates people she calls "nerds", so no, I'm not ignoring it. It's all part of OP's lack of judgment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignoring the "nerd club" troll comment, this is in line with them shutting down the college acceptance pages that every class at every school has been doing for the past decade

It seems like a very hierarchical, control-freak kind of thing to do

Oh please. What is all the hubbub about? It’s not that big of a deal— on either end. It’s not control freak. They are minors. I don’t want some high schooler deciding what photos my 14 year old daughter at whatever club event is posted and commented on without some oversight. But I’m not up in arms about the school not having oversight about the pages before. It seems like a reasonable course correction. Of course the school will allow the innocuous school decision IG page to go on. Nothing salacious goes on there and it’s an optional thing to do.

I am confounded by the intense reactions on either side. If we can’t even find common ground on something so meaningless without reading into every single act and declaring it some major wrongdoing on either side, how can we expect our country to ever find its way back to normalcy on a greater scale. We are literally fighting about club IG pages. Do you realize that? This isn’t a board agenda item. Can we start modeling rational adult behavior and critical thinking and discourse at least on the school community level. Let’s not model this BS to our kids.

[Anonymous]

Where is Kris Jenner when you need an image makeover?