school communications. Here's the situation:
A small team of parents manage a grade level sub-site on our overall school
web site. On the grade level sites, we cooperatively offer information based
on feeds form our school news and school calendars, and our parent web
masters upload photos from grade level events and other grade-specific
information for school events. The larger parent organization also
contributed information on parent education events and the like. So far, so
good.
The question comes in regarding grade level, non-school sponsored events,
such as an informal group of parents getting together for coffee, or a
back-yard party, or tail gate party before a local university game. These
events may or may not include our students.
Of course we want to encourage our parents to get to know one another, bond,
share parenting tips, and so on. And we also want to protect the school from
any liability issues associated with events that may appear to have the
imprimatur of the school when they, in fact do not.
We identify the web pages created by the grade level webmaster's as being
created by parents, but we do not have a legal disclaimer on it due to the
mixed authorship of the page's contents.
Alternatives that we have considered include
- sending all non-school events to a third-part web site not associated with
the school
- putting a disclaimer on all events and emails sent by parents to
non-school events (but how cna we be sure we hit all of them)
- not being such worry-warts
I'm sure the wisdom of the group will help us find a reasonable approach.
Tks.
s
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Steve Taffee staffee@castilleja.org
Director of Technology 650.924.1040 (Google Voice)
Castilleja School 650.470.7725 (office)
1310 Bryant Street 415.613.6684 (mobile)
Palo Alto, CA 94301 www.castilleja.org | taffee.edublogs.org
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