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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid's middle school has a few of these accounts. You can report them to Instagram but the kids will just start another account. [/quote]

It's still worthwhile to tell the school and push for the counseling office and/or administration to be very clear with kids that this is not acceptable. It may be "legal" -- if the kids are over 13 -- but it's not acceptable.

Kids need to start understanding that adults, including their own teachers, counselors and the principal and staff, can and will look at students' online activity and won't hesitate to call them out it.

When a bunch of "ship" postings were running like wildfire through our MS, the principal was all over it the minute she was told about it (by the parents of a student who was very distressed by being pictured on it). Some kids ended up having to go to her office and explain why they felt it was appropriate to publicly post pictures of other kids who had not given permission to them to do so. That nonsense ended fast.

Parents need to be more active about monitoring kids and cracking down if the kids are doing things that are mean or just plain dumb online. It's not a place to experiment with being foolish, despite the fact that many adults treat social media that way. These same kids who find social media gossip funny now are going to be the ones who as seniors are posting pictures of themselves drinking and acting the fool, and yes -- colleges now actually DO look at applicants' social media and where they're tagged on others' social media. Not all the time, no. But enough that parents should be concerned enough to teach their kids to stop thinking everything they post is just for fun.[/quote]

If the kids aren’t dumb enough to use school computers, do it on school wifi or use school e-mail, how exactly will a principal prove responsibility? [/quote]

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