Sen. Kruse has introduced SB 266 which will teach a generation of students how to cover their asses in the corporate world by copying their supervisors on every email. It requires students and teachers to copy the student’s parents and the principal on every electronic communication and requires the principal to archive all the communications for at least two years. If the teacher fails to abide by this statute, it’s a Class A misdemeanor. The student would merely be subject to school discipline.
Is this based on a fear of teachers and students kanoodling? Or is there something else going on?
How do you copy the parents and principal on a Skype call? Or a Twitter direct message?
Maybe he should introduce a version of SB267 and establish the state seal of dumbassery. Sen. Kruse and Sen. Delph would be shoe-ins.
Further undermining teachers and any authority they might have. Sort of a Cardinal Richelieu thing I guess.
If it’s so vague and messy, it sort of lacks some rather important requirements of legislation, no? School people already need to keep track of all kinds of legitimate information, but that is just onerous and silly. It will just discourage teachers from communicating with their students, so I can envision teachers having a frank talk with students at the beginning of the year, telling them that they have enough to do without keeping track of all their electronic communications. Then following with, “Let’s do it this way….” But like Joe says, what do you do with Skype? Face to Face? Hangouts? I’ll bet folks can add a lot of others to the list.
I’m guessing this is already a policy at many schools. When I was an online TA, I always copied the prof in charge when emailing students as a courtesy, and as a learning center tutor I was required to do so with my director. The criminal charges seem a bit unwarranted. If it is kanoodling Kruse wants to prevent, there are already laws against that. I’m just not sure another layer of illegality will help.
I’d like to know how many schools are already archiving e-mail, and the economic impact to archive to the standard of this law. That sort of technological capability, I don’t believe, is not cheap.
Great….What about online high school courses? I teach art history online, I have to text, call, email, and post online to my students constantly to make sure they are starting the course, staying on pace, answering questions they have etc…….the middle schools and high school use My Big Campus and Google Classroom for creating. completing, blogging, testing etc……we are in constant contact with our students. This is crazy.
Would this apply to all schools? – or would Charter Schools
be exempt from these then “onerous” regulations?
Or perhaps Legislators should be required to copy their constituents / the public by posting all their legislative email to a public website so we can keep track of them…?
Senator Kruse = FAIL
Why not, instead of putting burden on schools and tax payers, pass a law requiring parents to pay attention to what their kids are doing online? SB 267 could be states quite simply: Parents are required to parents their children.
Not only that but sometimes your students are also your children’s best friends…they text you to get a ride or for help in the subject they have even if they don’t have you, etc etc etc. They need advice on how to talk to their parents etc and you are their second parents. That is going to make you a criminal?