Social Media and Ethical Education

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Appropriate Use of Social
Media: Legal, Ethical, and
Policy Issues for
Educational Leaders
Dr. George Noflin
Grambling State University
Novice Class Spring 2023
January 17, 2023
Social Media
 Facebook
 Snapchat
 Twitter
 Flickr
 Instagram
 PhotoBucket
 Blogs
 Google+
 Wikis
 Text Messaging
 Email
Legal Issues
 First Amendment
 Fourth Amendment
 Fourteenth Amendment
 Student Contact
 Parent Contact
 Appropriate District and School Policies
Teachers have some Constitutional
Rights
These Rights must be balanced with
school/district needs for:
* efficiency
* harmony
* good working relationships
Four Legal Lines of Reasoning
 Constitutional Rights
 Nature of the Conduct
 Nexus between Conduct and Job
Performance
 School Board Policy
Pickering v. Board
 Matters of Public Concern are Public Speech
BUT:
 Cannot interfere with Discipline by Supervisors
or Workplace Harmony
 Cannot interfere with personal loyalty and
confidence for proper school functioning
 Cannot Damage Professional Reputations
Mt. Healthy District v. Doyle
 Retaliation Test
 No Constitutional Violation – if individual would
have been terminated for reasons other than
protected speech.
Connick v. Myers
Matters of Personal Interest ARE
NOT Protected Speech.
Pickering-Connick Balance
1st Prong
 Does the speech address
matters of public
concern?
 Does the free-speech
outweigh the efficiency
and harmony of the
school/district?
2nd Prong
 Does the speech impair
discipline or harmony
among coworkers?
 Does the speech impair
close working
relationships where
personal loyalty and
confidence are
necessary?
O’Conner v. Ortega
 Public Employee Workplace Searches
 Reasonableness of the search in scope and
inception.
 At least a moderate chance that a search will
reveal violations of school policy or criminal
conduct.
Policy and Practice Suggestions

Develop up-to-date
comprehensive computer and
social media use policies that
address appropriate limits of
employee speech on sites
accessible by the public.

Policies should identify a range of
sanctions.

Specific policies for district
owned and operated equipment
and systems.

Review/Update policies annually.

Establish reasonable parameters
for searching electronic devices.

Communicate to all parties that
online speech that substantially
disrupts the school may be
subject to sanctions.

Inform and educate all parties on
responsible use of social
networking.

Have signed acceptable use
agreement forms.
ETHICAL EDUCATION
A PRESENTATION FOR THE NOVICE CLASS
PRESENTED BY DR. GEORGE NOFLIN, JR.
GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY
1/2022
RULE # 1
Thou Shalt Not Steal
STATE STATUE
Revised Statue 14:67
Theft
$500=6 months or fined $1000 or both
Over $1000=10 years in prison and fined
$2000 or both
DOUGHERTY COUNTY SCHOOL TEACHER IS CHARGED WITH
STEALING MONEY DANCE LINE MEMBERS GAVE HER FOR THEIR
UNIFORMS
Lakisha Williams, Albany Georgia
Arrested on one count of felony theft by conversion
Williams spent one night and jail and posted 2,500 bond on August
17th
M ic rosoft Word
Doc um ent
FORMER HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER REPORTEDLY
ADMITS TO STEALING STUDENT MONEY FOR
GAMBLING
Reginald Lawrence, 47
Lawrence has been a football coach at Jackson, Pennsauken, Willingboro, Camden and most
recently Haddon Heights High School and was a teacher for 16 years serving most recently as a
history teacher and senior class advisor at Willingboro High School.
A former teacher and football coach from Willingboro High School
Pleaded guilty to stealing thousands in student money to fund his gambling addiction, according
to news reports.
Sentenced to 364 days in jail after he confessed to stealing roughly $14,500 between October
2015 and April 2016 from funds paid by students for school activities. He was arrested on April
15
Lawrence also agreed to forfeit his right to public employment in New Jersey and will have to go
to state-required counseling for his gambling addiction.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/teacher-accused-stealing-moneyraised-cheerleading/53611043
RULE # 2
Thou Shalt Not Be on Social Media
with Thou Students
STATE STATUE
Revised Standard 14:40.3-Cyberstalking
Penalty:
1st- up to $2000 and/or imprisoned no more than one year
2nd within 7 years- up to $5000 and/or imprisoned for 180 days to 3 years
3rd and subsequent within seven years- up to $5000 and/or 2 to 5 years
Revised Statutes 17:239- Prohibition against unauthorized use of electronic telecommunication
devices; exceptions; penalties
Penalty: Given by the School District, could include suspension or termination.
Hoffmann (HB 570)
Requires each school district to adopt and implement policies and procedures relative to an
electronic communication by and employee at a school to a student enrolled at the school.
SOCIAL MEDIA INCREASES SEXUAL MISCONDUCT BY TEACHERS
• Sexual misconduct among teachers across the nation’s schools is on the rise, and some experts blame social media for the
increase.
• Terry Abbott, the former chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Education, tracked reports of sexual misconduct and found
an alarming trend. Teacher sexual misconduct is higher than it’s ever been, and 35 percent of those cases involved social
media.
• A report mandated by Congress estimated 10 percent of public school students—or 4.5 million—are involved in some form
of sexual misconduct with teachers, including verbal harassment that is sexual in nature.
• His analysis of reports across the United States found southern states had more incidents.
• Four of the top five states with the most cases of educator sexual misconduct were southern states.
• Louisiana was included in the top five.
• Alabama had the highest rate of cases.
• The first case of 2015 reported in Louisiana was the January arrest of a 27-year-old male Lafayette teacher for sex with a
14-year-old student.
SOCIAL MEDIA INCREASES SEXUAL MISCONDUCT BY
TEACHERS CONT.
• Northeastern Louisiana has seen its share of teacher misconduct over the past several years.
• A 29-year-old Farmerville High School teacher was arrested on charges he allegedly had sexual relations with a male
high school student in 2013.
• A 22-year-old woman was arrested in 2012 accused of an affair with a 16-year-old male at the school where she
worked as a substitute teacher.
• In 2007 a Neville High School girls basketball coach accused of sending text messages of a sexual nature was
arrested.
• “The biggest reason this occurs now is social media,” Abbott told USAToday.
• Texting, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram all give teachers and students greater access to each other in private.
• Local therapist Dr. Van Frusha said social media has increased the access people have with each other and this type of
access is often reported as a factor in the occurrences of inappropriate adult/child access.
• While there are more reported cases of inappropriate contact involving male teachers, reports involving female teachers
continue to increase. This may be in large part due to a change in what is acceptable in society, Frusha said.
MORE TEACHERS ARE HAVING SEX WITH THEIR STUDENTS.
HERE’S HOW SCHOOLS CAN STOP THEM
• A 14-year-old student in Florida Wrote his cellphone number on a classroom chalkboard because he wanted a
classmate he liked to call him. The student indeed was contacted – not by the girl but allegedly by his 32-yearold teacher. Within days, police said, the two were involved in a sexual relationship.
• In Pennsylvania, a 33-year-old teacher approached a 17-year-old student at a school dance and began flirting
with him, police said.
• In 2014 alone, there were 781 reported cases of teachers and other school employees accused or convicted of
sexual relationships with students.
• Every week has brought news of 15 young people, on average, who were sexually victimized by the
educators entrusted with protecting them. That’s an abhorrent rate and a trend that deserves far more
attention from school leaders and policy makers.
• In Texas, home to the largest number of teacher sexual misconduct cases in the country, investigations into alleged
inappropriate teacher-student relationships has grown 27 percent over the past three years, to 179.
MORE TEACHERS ARE HAVING SEX WITH THEIR STUDENTS. HERE’S
HOW SCHOOLS CAN STOP THEM CONT.
• Since then, two things have become popular and had a massive effect on the prevalence of sexual misconduct in schools: social media and
text messaging.
• Facebook, Instagram and snapchat didn’t exist 15 years ago, and the number of teenagers with their own cell phones has ballooned.
• Nearly 80 percent of youth ages 12 to 17 own a cellphone, and 94 percent now have a Facebook account. Classroom sexual
predators have been exploiting these new, unsupervised modes of communication to develop improper relationships with students out of
sight of parents and principals.
• These instantaneous, omnipresent and discreet connections have created an open gateway for inappropriate behavior.
• Last year, at least 281 school employees — 36 percent of those accused or convicted of an inappropriate relationship with a student –
were reported to have used social media to start or continue those relationships. I suspect the percentage actually is significantly higher,
since news accounts don’t always reveal when social media was a factor in these interactions.
• To curb these troubling incidents, schools must have targeted policies governing electronic communication.
• Some states and school districts already have taken strong action in this area.
• In New Jersey, a new law requires school districts to adopt policies on social media contact between teachers and students. The new
jersey school boards association’s model policy bans teachers from friending students on social media without written approval of their
principal. It also says electronic contact with students should be done only through district computers and telephones.
• While social media can be an important tool for learning, reasonable restrictions must be put in place to protect children. If a teacher or
coach wants to send an electronic communication to a student, it should be copied to a parent. Private messages with children should never be
allowed.
THOU SHALT NOT BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THOU
STUDENTS
• http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Teachers-students-and-social-media-howfar-is-too-far–399711371.html
RULE # 3
Thou Shalt Not have Sexual Relations with
Thou Students
STATE STATUE
RS 14:81.4
Prohibited sexual conduct between educator and student
• Penalty:
• 1st-$1000 and 6 months in jail
• 2nd-$5000 and 1-5 years in prison
FONTAINEBLEAU HIGH TEACHER ACCUSED OF
HAVING SEX WITH STUDENT
• William Leto, 37
• Former Fontainebleau High School math teacher and
assistant girls’ basketball coach
• Under arrest, accused of having sexual relations with
one of his students.
• Initially made inappropriate contact with student
through social media, where he began “grooming” her.
Beekman Charter School teacher accused of having sex
with student
Ashley Mott , amott@thenewsstar.com
Published 5:04 p.m. CT March 28, 2016 | Updated 11:40 a.m. CT March 29, 2016
BEEKMAN CHARTER SCHOOL TEACHER ACCUSED OF
HAVING SEX WITH STUDENT
• Bond for a Morehouse Parish teacher accused of having sex with a juvenile was set at $10,000 on Thursday.
• Conditions of bail for Mary Catherine Petrus, 22, a teacher at Beekman Charter School in Morehouse, include
having no contact with the victim or the victim’s family and not returning to the school.
• According to an affidavit and warrant, a juvenile over the age of 13, but less than 17, was interviewed by
MPSO deputies on March 19. The juvenile told deputies he and the suspect had engaged in sexual intercourse.
• The suspect was questioned on March 21 by deputies and reportedly said she had engaged in consensual sex
with the juvenile according to arrest records.
• Petrus was charged with one count of carnal knowledge of juvenile.
EXAMPLES OF IMPROPER RELATIONS
• 1.http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=destrehan+high+school+teacher+a
rrested+video&view=detail&mid=77BF5995B8994F4BC8EF77BF5995B899
4F4BC8EF&FORM=VIRE
FINAL NOTES
1. You represent your family, the community, and Grambling
State University!
2. Make good decisions!
3. Pray the Teacher’s Prayer!
ALWAYS PRAY!
Appropriate Use of Social
Media: Legal, Ethical, and
Policy Issues for
Educational Leaders
Dr. George Noflin
Grambling State University
Novice Class Spring 2023
January 17, 2023
Social Media
 Facebook
 Snapchat
 Twitter
 Flickr
 Instagram
 PhotoBucket
 Blogs
 Google+
 Wikis
 Text Messaging
 Email
Legal Issues
 First Amendment
 Fourth Amendment
 Fourteenth Amendment
 Student Contact
 Parent Contact
 Appropriate District and School Policies
Teachers have some Constitutional
Rights
These Rights must be balanced with
school/district needs for:
* efficiency
* harmony
* good working relationships
Four Legal Lines of Reasoning
 Constitutional Rights
 Nature of the Conduct
 Nexus between Conduct and Job
Performance
 School Board Policy
Pickering v. Board
 Matters of Public Concern are Public Speech
BUT:
 Cannot interfere with Discipline by Supervisors
or Workplace Harmony
 Cannot interfere with personal loyalty and
confidence for proper school functioning
 Cannot Damage Professional Reputations
Mt. Healthy District v. Doyle
 Retaliation Test
 No Constitutional Violation – if individual would
have been terminated for reasons other than
protected speech.
Connick v. Myers
Matters of Personal Interest ARE
NOT Protected Speech.
Pickering-Connick Balance
1st Prong
 Does the speech address
matters of public
concern?
 Does the free-speech
outweigh the efficiency
and harmony of the
school/district?
2nd Prong
 Does the speech impair
discipline or harmony
among coworkers?
 Does the speech impair
close working
relationships where
personal loyalty and
confidence are
necessary?
O’Conner v. Ortega
 Public Employee Workplace Searches
 Reasonableness of the search in scope and
inception.
 At least a moderate chance that a search will
reveal violations of school policy or criminal
conduct.
Policy and Practice Suggestions

Develop up-to-date
comprehensive computer and
social media use policies that
address appropriate limits of
employee speech on sites
accessible by the public.

Policies should identify a range of
sanctions.

Specific policies for district
owned and operated equipment
and systems.

Review/Update policies annually.

Establish reasonable parameters
for searching electronic devices.

Communicate to all parties that
online speech that substantially
disrupts the school may be
subject to sanctions.

Inform and educate all parties on
responsible use of social
networking.

Have signed acceptable use
agreement forms.
ETHICAL EDUCATION
A PRESENTATION FOR THE NOVICE CLASS
PRESENTED BY DR. GEORGE NOFLIN, JR.
GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY
1/2022
RULE # 1
Thou Shalt Not Steal
STATE STATUE
Revised Statue 14:67
Theft
$500=6 months or fined $1000 or both
Over $1000=10 years in prison and fined
$2000 or both
DOUGHERTY COUNTY SCHOOL TEACHER IS CHARGED WITH
STEALING MONEY DANCE LINE MEMBERS GAVE HER FOR THEIR
UNIFORMS
Lakisha Williams, Albany Georgia
Arrested on one count of felony theft by conversion
Williams spent one night and jail and posted 2,500 bond on August
17th
M ic rosoft Word
Doc um ent
FORMER HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER REPORTEDLY
ADMITS TO STEALING STUDENT MONEY FOR
GAMBLING
Reginald Lawrence, 47
Lawrence has been a football coach at Jackson, Pennsauken, Willingboro, Camden and most
recently Haddon Heights High School and was a teacher for 16 years serving most recently as a
history teacher and senior class advisor at Willingboro High School.
A former teacher and football coach from Willingboro High School
Pleaded guilty to stealing thousands in student money to fund his gambling addiction, according
to news reports.
Sentenced to 364 days in jail after he confessed to stealing roughly $14,500 between October
2015 and April 2016 from funds paid by students for school activities. He was arrested on April
15
Lawrence also agreed to forfeit his right to public employment in New Jersey and will have to go
to state-required counseling for his gambling addiction.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/teacher-accused-stealing-moneyraised-cheerleading/53611043
RULE # 2
Thou Shalt Not Be on Social Media
with Thou Students
STATE STATUE
Revised Standard 14:40.3-Cyberstalking
Penalty:
1st- up to $2000 and/or imprisoned no more than one year
2nd within 7 years- up to $5000 and/or imprisoned for 180 days to 3 years
3rd and subsequent within seven years- up to $5000 and/or 2 to 5 years
Revised Statutes 17:239- Prohibition against unauthorized use of electronic telecommunication
devices; exceptions; penalties
Penalty: Given by the School District, could include suspension or termination.
Hoffmann (HB 570)
Requires each school district to adopt and implement policies and procedures relative to an
electronic communication by and employee at a school to a student enrolled at the school.
SOCIAL MEDIA INCREASES SEXUAL MISCONDUCT BY TEACHERS
• Sexual misconduct among teachers across the nation’s schools is on the rise, and some experts blame social media for the
increase.
• Terry Abbott, the former chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Education, tracked reports of sexual misconduct and found
an alarming trend. Teacher sexual misconduct is higher than it’s ever been, and 35 percent of those cases involved social
media.
• A report mandated by Congress estimated 10 percent of public school students—or 4.5 million—are involved in some form
of sexual misconduct with teachers, including verbal harassment that is sexual in nature.
• His analysis of reports across the United States found southern states had more incidents.
• Four of the top five states with the most cases of educator sexual misconduct were southern states.
• Louisiana was included in the top five.
• Alabama had the highest rate of cases.
• The first case of 2015 reported in Louisiana was the January arrest of a 27-year-old male Lafayette teacher for sex with a
14-year-old student.
SOCIAL MEDIA INCREASES SEXUAL MISCONDUCT BY
TEACHERS CONT.
• Northeastern Louisiana has seen its share of teacher misconduct over the past several years.
• A 29-year-old Farmerville High School teacher was arrested on charges he allegedly had sexual relations with a male
high school student in 2013.
• A 22-year-old woman was arrested in 2012 accused of an affair with a 16-year-old male at the school where she
worked as a substitute teacher.
• In 2007 a Neville High School girls basketball coach accused of sending text messages of a sexual nature was
arrested.
• “The biggest reason this occurs now is social media,” Abbott told USAToday.
• Texting, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram all give teachers and students greater access to each other in private.
• Local therapist Dr. Van Frusha said social media has increased the access people have with each other and this type of
access is often reported as a factor in the occurrences of inappropriate adult/child access.
• While there are more reported cases of inappropriate contact involving male teachers, reports involving female teachers
continue to increase. This may be in large part due to a change in what is acceptable in society, Frusha said.
MORE TEACHERS ARE HAVING SEX WITH THEIR STUDENTS.
HERE’S HOW SCHOOLS CAN STOP THEM
• A 14-year-old student in Florida Wrote his cellphone number on a classroom chalkboard because he wanted a
classmate he liked to call him. The student indeed was contacted – not by the girl but allegedly by his 32-yearold teacher. Within days, police said, the two were involved in a sexual relationship.
• In Pennsylvania, a 33-year-old teacher approached a 17-year-old student at a school dance and began flirting
with him, police said.
• In 2014 alone, there were 781 reported cases of teachers and other school employees accused or convicted of
sexual relationships with students.
• Every week has brought news of 15 young people, on average, who were sexually victimized by the
educators entrusted with protecting them. That’s an abhorrent rate and a trend that deserves far more
attention from school leaders and policy makers.
• In Texas, home to the largest number of teacher sexual misconduct cases in the country, investigations into alleged
inappropriate teacher-student relationships has grown 27 percent over the past three years, to 179.
MORE TEACHERS ARE HAVING SEX WITH THEIR STUDENTS. HERE’S
HOW SCHOOLS CAN STOP THEM CONT.
• Since then, two things have become popular and had a massive effect on the prevalence of sexual misconduct in schools: social media and
text messaging.
• Facebook, Instagram and snapchat didn’t exist 15 years ago, and the number of teenagers with their own cell phones has ballooned.
• Nearly 80 percent of youth ages 12 to 17 own a cellphone, and 94 percent now have a Facebook account. Classroom sexual
predators have been exploiting these new, unsupervised modes of communication to develop improper relationships with students out of
sight of parents and principals.
• These instantaneous, omnipresent and discreet connections have created an open gateway for inappropriate behavior.
• Last year, at least 281 school employees — 36 percent of those accused or convicted of an inappropriate relationship with a student –
were reported to have used social media to start or continue those relationships. I suspect the percentage actually is significantly higher,
since news accounts don’t always reveal when social media was a factor in these interactions.
• To curb these troubling incidents, schools must have targeted policies governing electronic communication.
• Some states and school districts already have taken strong action in this area.
• In New Jersey, a new law requires school districts to adopt policies on social media contact between teachers and students. The new
jersey school boards association’s model policy bans teachers from friending students on social media without written approval of their
principal. It also says electronic contact with students should be done only through district computers and telephones.
• While social media can be an important tool for learning, reasonable restrictions must be put in place to protect children. If a teacher or
coach wants to send an electronic communication to a student, it should be copied to a parent. Private messages with children should never be
allowed.
THOU SHALT NOT BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH THOU
STUDENTS
• http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Teachers-students-and-social-media-howfar-is-too-far–399711371.html
RULE # 3
Thou Shalt Not have Sexual Relations with
Thou Students
STATE STATUE
RS 14:81.4
Prohibited sexual conduct between educator and student
• Penalty:
• 1st-$1000 and 6 months in jail
• 2nd-$5000 and 1-5 years in prison
FONTAINEBLEAU HIGH TEACHER ACCUSED OF
HAVING SEX WITH STUDENT
• William Leto, 37
• Former Fontainebleau High School math teacher and
assistant girls’ basketball coach
• Under arrest, accused of having sexual relations with
one of his students.
• Initially made inappropriate contact with student
through social media, where he began “grooming” her.
Beekman Charter School teacher accused of having sex
with student
Ashley Mott , amott@thenewsstar.com
Published 5:04 p.m. CT March 28, 2016 | Updated 11:40 a.m. CT March 29, 2016
BEEKMAN CHARTER SCHOOL TEACHER ACCUSED OF
HAVING SEX WITH STUDENT
• Bond for a Morehouse Parish teacher accused of having sex with a juvenile was set at $10,000 on Thursday.
• Conditions of bail for Mary Catherine Petrus, 22, a teacher at Beekman Charter School in Morehouse, include
having no contact with the victim or the victim’s family and not returning to the school.
• According to an affidavit and warrant, a juvenile over the age of 13, but less than 17, was interviewed by
MPSO deputies on March 19. The juvenile told deputies he and the suspect had engaged in sexual intercourse.
• The suspect was questioned on March 21 by deputies and reportedly said she had engaged in consensual sex
with the juvenile according to arrest records.
• Petrus was charged with one count of carnal knowledge of juvenile.
EXAMPLES OF IMPROPER RELATIONS
• 1.http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=destrehan+high+school+teacher+a
rrested+video&view=detail&mid=77BF5995B8994F4BC8EF77BF5995B899
4F4BC8EF&FORM=VIRE
FINAL NOTES
1. You represent your family, the community, and Grambling
State University!
2. Make good decisions!
3. Pray the Teacher’s Prayer!
ALWAYS PRAY!