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).