Bay City School District recently issued the following announcement.
You may have noticed a recent update in our "about" section with the addition of our Social Media Disclaimer. Just kidding, no one checks the about section.
We're posting the full disclaimer here with the hope that you'll take a look and help us continue to utilize this platform to share information and interact with our stakeholders. When you reach out to us via a social media comment or private message, we do our best to get back to you as soon as we can. You're always interacting with one of just a few folks who help run the page: Ben Tierney, Director of Communications & Family Engagement, Dr. Stephen Bigelow, Superintendent, or the fine folks at Digital Mitten, who help us create posts and monitor our pages.
This disclaimer isn't reinventing the wheel or introducing new rules - it's just putting in writing the practices we've been following so we're all on the same page. Thanks for connecting with us, and feel free to reach out with any questions or comments.
BCPS Social Media Disclaimer:
We welcome and encourage the sharing of ideas and stories through our social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. We value two-way communication and want to hear from you.
We do our best to monitor participation to ensure it’s on topic and respectful, and have the same expectations for participation on our social media sites as we do for our students, staff and community members in our schools. The following guidelines should be followed when participating on our social media sites:
• Abusive or hurtful comments toward another individual will be deleted
• Off-topic comments will be deleted, including promotion of events, groups, pages, products or services not affiliated with Bay City Public Schools
• Foul language or hate speech will not be permitted
• Personal attacks or defamatory statements/comments will be deleted (it is acceptable to challenge a viewpoint, but not appropriate to personally attack another individual)
• Comments that violate privacy will be deleted
Information, tips or opinions shared on our social media sites are not intended to replace guidance provided by individual teachers or other support staff about individual students.
Links to other organizations’ sites in our posts are provided as a service to our readers/followers. Links should not be considered an endorsement of a site, product or service by Bay City Public Schools.
It is important to remember that comments submitted on our social media sites are available to the public. Bay City Public Schools may use this information for internal or external promotional purposes. Other participants may also use information posted in comments and this is beyond the control of Bay City Public Schools.
If you do not wish to have information you share used, please refrain from interacting with BCPS social media pages.
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