Monday, June 06, 2011

Cunningham doesn't back down on Facebook provision: Joplin tornado shows need to plan beforehand on how to contact students

Sen. Jane Cunningham's Amy Hestir Student Protection Act, which has a provision preventing teachers and students from communicating through Facebook is on Gov. Jay Nixon's desk, after passing Houses unanimously.

As I have written over the past couple of weeks, if that bill was already law, Joplin teachers would have had considerable difficulty contacting hundreds of students had it not been for Facebook. When that point was brought to Sen. Cunningham's attention by the Springfield News-Leader, she, of course, had a ready answer. The tornado shows the need to come up with a better system beforehand so teachers don't have to resort to something as evil as Facebook to make sure their students are all right:

Bill sponsor Cunningham said the tornado shows the need for disaster planning.


"What you've got to do is you've got to set up a method to communicate that's positive and that's safe -- ahead of time," she said.

She said it's important that school officials include parents in any communication with students.

"We're not trying to stop the communication," she said. "We're just trying to make sure it's safe and appropriate."
The News-Leader article also includes some quotes from The Turner Report and an interview with Joplin High School instructor Bruce Vonder Haar
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:30 PM

    I read the article today Randy and I am sad you were not able to further comment on the situation. This woman is a fraud and a lunatic. I am not sure why people of her district can't see that. Then again, our district elected Billy Long.

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  2. Give it a rest Turner.8:43 PM

    Nonsense, Turner, anonymous clown.

    Pretty much everyone except critters like Turner see a need to keep sex pervert teachers away from our children. This is why a law was passed in which teachers need a parents' permission to contact children after normal business hours, i.e. after school.

    Turner has been throwing a ring-tailed fit over this, which goes to show that there is a need for this law. Normal people don't obsess over getting to see other people's underage kids when school hours are over. I was a fairly good student, but I NEVER wanted to see any teacher after school hours and they presumably didn't want to see me either, on their free time. This Cunningham law is simply good sense.

    So give it a rest Turner. You look like a perv.

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