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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you provide a suggestion for how to enforce such a policy? [/quote]

Sure.  If it comes to the teacher's attention that a collaborative school assignment was completed with the use of anonymous social media or other unsafe social media repeatedly used by child predators including kik, (others), that assignment will be revoked and given a score of zero.

I mean, it's kind of hard to enforce schools' policies against plagiarism, too.  If a kid plagiarizes his grandfather's book report that's been in a cabinet for 50 years, he likely won't get caught.  There's no way to know.  But schools don't say that because there are times we won't know when kids are breaking the school policy, we just won't have a school policy on plagiarism.  Schools have a policy, they make sure that kids know what the rules, why breaking the rules is wrong, and what the consequences for breaking the rules would be, and schools do their best to enforce the policy.

What's would be so awful about having a similar policy against using anonymous social media on school projects?  Why are you against it?[/quote]

I love where your heart is with this, but with grading policies trending as they are, this would never happen. Your example regarding plagiarism supports this. As Garza moves towards a district-wide grading and reporting policy, there will not be academic "punishments" for behaviors. That's a whole new topic, though. In the meantime, teachers emphasizing the use of safe collaboration outside of school and parents monitoring phone/online communication seems to be a needed partnership.[/quote]

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