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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for the response. Of course it’s your message board, but those are lame reasons IMO. First, the “former employee” was a senior administrator who made numerous public statements about the middle school, so I don’t see how that aspect of the discussion was off-topic. Second, is it really your view that senior administrators cannot be named in the independent school forum? We are not talking about teachers here; they are leaders and limited purpose public figures—in this instance, the principal of the middle school.[/quote]

I absolutely think that senior administrators should be named. Just not anonymously. If you have the courage of your convictions, don't hide behind anonymous posts. Similarly, I absolutely believe that in a thread about middle school homeroom assignments, discussion of a former employee who was not involved in assigning homerooms is off-topic.
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Well, the discussion evolved into a broader discussion about the middle school, not just homeroom assignments. But you appear to have deleted those comments as well. Which is odd, since discussions on this message board often evolve in certain ways, without going “off-topic.” If you are going to enforce a view that any comments that are not strictly and narrowly responsive to OP are off-topic, that would certainly be a change for the independent school forum.

As to your view that people should only be able to name senior administrators (which in this instance I did not personally do) if they have the “courage” to identify themselves—respectfully, that makes no sense. As a general matter, this is an anonymous forum. And the forum is going to lose a lot of its value if parents have to identify themselves in order to discuss the actions of leaders in a particular school. Just to take one hypothetical example, what if a parent wants to start a discussion about a senior administrator who is believed to retaliate against parents and/or their kids when the parents are viewed to be “difficult” or “complainers”? How would that discussion happen on this message board when someone has to identify themselves and risk (in their view) the exact retaliation that they have identified? And if they can’t identify the administrator(s), how useful can the discussion be? Are you distinguishing between “naming” an administrator and using that administrator’s initials for identification purposes? Because I recall that some comments with just initials were deleted as well.[/quote]

I removed the messages for the reasons stated. You can accept those reasons or not. It makes no difference to me. I'm sure that if our users were criticizing you by name, you would be glad that I stopped it. [/quote]

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