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By Rosa Golijan
Considering that school districts around the country are developing social media guidelines and specifying that teachers shouldn't "friend" students on Facebook?at all, one would assume that it's obvious that teachers also shouldn't "friend" students on Facebook using fake identities.
Well ... we all know what happens when we assume.?
Jessica Bock?of STLtoday reports that Dr. Louise Losos ??the principal of Clayton High School in?Clayton, MO?? has resigned from her position after?a former student alleged that she'd been adding students as Facebook friends using a false identity.
"Whoever is friends with Suzy Harriston on Facebook needs to drop them. It is the Clayton Principal," a post in a public Facebook group declared at the beginning of April. Harriston, whose profile showed a photo of penguins and that she had more than 300 friends (many of them from Clayton High School) vanished from Facebook almost immediately following that claim.
"[A]?search of public records in Missouri found no results for anyone named 'Suzy Harriston,'" Bock points out.?And the school district "confirmed that no student by the name of Suzy Harriston was enrolled at the high school in the last two years."
The day after the allegation and mysterious disappearance, Losos took a leave of absence. Several weeks later, she handed in a resignation.?
Chris Tennill, Chief Communications Officer for the School District of Clayton, couldn't elaborate on the alleged connection between Losos and the mysterious Suzy Harriston who'd been friending Clayton students, but he did confirm that Losos "has resigned as Clayton High School Principal effective June 30, 2012." She will remain on a leave of absence "for personal reasons" until that time.
He added that the School District of Clayton and Losos had "had a fundamental dispute concerning the appropriate use of social media" and provided me with a link to the district's?Employee-Student Handbook.?
While the handbook does not appear to address social media specifically, it does have a section dedicated to electronic communications between staff and students:
Staff members may use electronic communication with students only as frequently as necessary to accomplish an educational purpose.? Communication for an educational purpose would include communications related to a staff member?s position, including but not limited to teaching, counseling, athletics, extracurricular activities, treatment of a student?s physical injury, or other purposes related to a staff member?s job duties. [...]?The district discourages staff members from communicating with students electronically for reasons other than educational purposes.
It's possible that the disappearance of Suzy?Harriston?? who only seems to have existed online?? and Dr. Louise Losos' social media-related resignation coincidentally happened in the same timeframe. But if we apply?Occam's razor?and consider that?the simplest explanation tends to be the best one, odds are that the principal had been covertly befriending students on Facebook?? without letting them know who she is.
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