Help with high school.

[AnyDream]

Yeah, creating publicly accessible profile with personal information online = not cool for school.

At my DD's school, she had some assignments last year where they were required to create social media pages for their choice of fictional character. The school used PAID SOFTWARE that allowed the students to create mock pages with all the features that the real site would have without logging on to the Internet at all. Simultaneously, they had intensive cyber safety instruction. This was great because the school was able to use the pretend exercise to teach about the real dangers involved. I can't see why any school/teacher would need to do these types of exercises "live" on the web. It reflects poorly on the teacher (for not doing their research & planning properly) and the school (for their lax IT policies & failure to provide appropriate software for student use).

[~*familyof3*~]

Thankyou everyone for your replies. Thought I had better give an update.
The teacher has called me, And never once said sorry for doing it.He said he hadn't set one up for everyone yet ect but that it was going to be used to teach them internet safety and to send work to them and them to send it back. He then went on to say he hadn't even sat down with the class to tell them what the rules would be or any safety stuff. I told him that as a teacher doesn't he think that he should have sat down with the class first and on top of that got parents consent too. Again he just babbled it was part of the computing class, which may be but again its my freaking right to know what MY child will be doing.

After all that I had to show him some other things I had infact found on the profile which was not appropriate at all. DS and some girl in his class were on the chat that came with the account and had a rather explicit conversation. And had to tell him these are part reason why we haven't set it up. He then tells me ...oh ok well I guess im will need to bad him for a few days as well as said girl. PFFT I told know he wouldn't need to as I had already taken screen shots and deactivated the account as well as changed the password so ds wouldn't be able to re-activate it.

The next day DS tells me the teacher spoke to him and said girl told them they made a dumb choice and would be banned for......TWO DAYS!! UGH.
After all that im still not happy so have gone on to make an official complaint. So I shall see where that goes. But honestly ive had so many issues with this school over riding us as his parents that im ready to home school him.
Most days we find out he has been watching movies rather than doing work

[Artechim]

So he basically just tried to justify setting up a public chat profile for your kid and has no intention of changing his plan?

Good on you for going above him. That really isn't acceptable.

[Trillian]

He said he hadn't set one up for everyone yet ect but that it was going to be used to teach them internet safety and to send work to them and them to send it back.

I call bull**** on thatreason.I think the school and the teacher is way out of line. ALL students should be using a DET issued email account to use within school for that purpose. Not sure what state you are in, but they are legally bound to have you sign parental consent forms as well as the student signing consent forms basically saying that they will not use it incorrectly. The school DS1 goes to is also able to track every single email that is sent and received for the year 7 students to the point where they all had to get a talking to over some students sending improper emails to each other and the instigators had their computer access blocked for a period of time. A gmail account is absolutely unacceptable!