In the real world, students are expected to follow along with their teachers, and if they like them even better.
But in the virtual world of social media, should principals and school districts know when students “like” their teacher’s profile page on Facebook, or “follow” them on Twitter?
The question is up for discussion as Miami-Dade and Broward lay the groundwork for social media policies that address its growing use among teachers and students.
Miami-Dade School Board member Raquel Regalado is proposing a measure to be discussed at Wednesday’s board meeting that would require school staff to notify principals if they have accepted friend requests from students on social networking sites.
“If you’re doing it in the capacity as a teacher, the school site administrator should know,” Regalado said.
Q: When did the worst period of cold weather occur in Texas?
A: The record was more than 100 years ago, says Texas A&M University’s John Nielsen-Gammon, who also serves as the state climatologist. “On Feb. 12, 1899, both Texas and Oklahoma had its coldest weather ever,” he reports. “On that day, all of Oklahoma was below minus-10 degrees, while one-half of Texas was below zero. Galveston Bay had areas of ice in it. Most cold waves in Texas aren’t that bad because the cold air tends to move east quickly, but on this particular day the air mass was so cold and large that there was little that Mother Nature could do to prevent it.”
Texas coldest recorded weather occured in 1899
Q: What about other cold periods?
A: In December 1895, Amarillo had a cold spell in which the city spent 261 consecutive hours below freezing. In January 1
With Premont High School facing the prospect of closing because of financial and academic problems, it has decided to cut its sports programs for this spring semester and the fall semester of 2012, reports The Caller.
Premont is a 2A high school. Think of Premont ISD as the now-defunct Wilmer-Hutchins ISD. It has long been struggling academically and also has some economic hurdles to clear. The district will save about $50,000 each semester by cutting sports and plans to open two new science labs with the money.
“Our urgent situation requires swift and drastic action,” Superintendent Ernest Singleton said to the Caller.
WEST PALM BEACH — The battle to build a charter school on preserve land inside one of the county’s last agricultural enclaves came to an abrupt end Tuesday, after a Sunrise-based homebuilder said it had found a 14-acre site for the project inside one of its future developments.
The announcement by GL Homes means that Palm Beach County commissioners will no longer have to consider a controversial change to the county’s long-term growth plan that would have allowed the school to rise in the 20,500-acre Agricultural Reserve west of Boynton Beach and Delray Beach.
Commissioners last month authorized county planners to start working on the change and were scheduled to hold a public hearing on it later this year. But the seven-member board on Tuesday unanimously agreed to withdraw its request after GL Homes said it found a site for the school within its Amestoy project, near the northwest corner of Boynton Beach Boulevard and Lyons Road.
The county has already approved 785 homes as part of the project, which also sits inside the county’s Agricultural Reserve. K
The confrontation between New Haven Independent reporter Melissa Bailey and a New Haven schools press official has gotten attention on Jim Romeneskos blog — and now the school official has turned in his letter of resignation. Not everyone thinks the situation is as cut and dried as it may seem, including some of the 120 commenters on the New Haven Independent site and Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green. What do you think?
