email accounts which is one reason why we do not offer school email
accounts. Controlling and monitoring of email is a family matter, the
family can chose to provide the child with email or not as they see
fit but the school does not. The family can choose the email provider.
If the child is being disruptive with email, or any other way in class
then that is a discipline issue for the teacher. We view email and for
that matter laptops just like any other kind of school supply that the
family makes decisions about; pen, pencils, notebooks and so forth.
There are practical and educational reasons fro this approach. In the
real world people have private email accounts and we want our student
to understand how email works. Not everyone is on the same system, not
everyone uses the same kind of computer, or the same software. You
have to learn how to communicate in a varied word. You can not assume
that because you have the latest version of Microsoft Office that
everyone else does at school or at home or anywhere.
That is why we have done what we have done. No school email accounts,
not for student's not for faculty not for anyone except a school
account for sending out newsletters and such and one for the
registrar. No student storage, students store their own
property,files, on their own drives not on the schools drives. We will
and do erase student files on school computers every night. We are
running a school not a data center.
Greg
On Sep 27, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Dave Baker wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Then I am not understanding your post about the reason you don't offer
> students or faculty email. A school is not a public library,
> particularly
> an independent school. Also, if a student is accessing an email
> account
> from school and sending/receiving messages during school hours it is
> not a
> private matter. One of the reasons we have chosen to provide students
> email accounts is we can control it/monitor it. As they are
> accessing an
> account during our classes we would be involved in the "private"
> choices a
> family is making.
>
> Dave
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