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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an honest question: if YOU can't fully control what your child does on social media (the child who lives in your home and is using a device you pay for), how could any school?[/quote]

I agree with this, to a point. Obviously schools cannot - and should not be expected to - monitor every student's off-campus behavior, on or offline.

Many things happen that a school cannot control. But what the school can control is its own reaction once something does happen. And that reaction is usually pretty revelatory about the school's underlying culture.

At the school where I work - outside the immediate metro DC area but still nearby - once something like this came to light, the Head of the Middle School would call in each involved student for a meeting also attended by the student's advisor. I don't know the particulars of this situation, but if it were bad enough, there would also be a call home. If it continued, the student would be called in for another meeting, this time with the Middle School head, the advisor, and their parents.

Our school's culture is that Middle School kids make mistakes, and it's our role to work with parents in partnership to help the kids learn from and correct those mistakes. But there's also an expectation for acceptable behavior, and if a student (and/or parent) demonstrates that they don't feel required to meet that standard, continually and intentionally falling short of it, then this isn't the place for them.[/quote]

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