Link provided to AP article on passing of Amy Hestir Student Protection Act

The Associated Press story on the passing of Jane Cunningham's Amy Hestir Student Protection Act buries the Facebook portion of the law at the end of the article (the same way it has been buried since the bill was first submitted).

As always, when this subject came up, only one teacher was contacted about it, and I was that teacher. The following passage comes from the article:

One person voicing objections is Randy Turner, a middle-school English teacher in Joplin. Turner said the websites can be a useful tool for teachers and that using them can help educators teach students about how to use social networking sites responsibly.

In addition, Turner said teachers used social networking websites to confirm their students were OK after a deadly tornado struck the southwestern Missouri city in May. He said the restrictions in the legislation would have made that same process far more difficult.

"There is nobody that gets penalized by this except people who would never even consider crossing the line," Turner said.