-tictech message:
I don't have any answers Mark, but I thought I'd share my experience with
this issue. We sent home the forms this year and recieved many back signed
but not checked. As we did last year, our school made follow-up phone calls
about all of those and found that almost all of them were from families who
wanted to allow both Internet access and the publishing of student work, but
who felt that forms needed to be signed and returned. In short the forms are
quite confusing even for literate, English speaking, educated parents. This
year we also had several parents pencil in that they did not want student
photos posted.
After we completed this process we found out that library services is using
a different (and much clearer) form to ask about giving students Internet
access. Their form lists two choices (Yes and No) and asks the form to be
returned in both cases. It was too late for us this year, but if that form
is still available we'll use it next year.
Matt Page
mopage@seattleschools.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Ahlness
To: tictech
Sent: 9/9/2002 7:31 PM
Subject: tictech: student pics/work on school web sites
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Hi All,
I'd really appreciate if someone could answer a couple of questions I
had
after reading
http://inside.seattleschools.org/area/main/webinternet/WPPfaq.xml:
"How much information about students can be posted on the web?
With the District Web Publishing Guidelines, it is assumed that the
District
and schools have permission to publish student work, photographs, and
limited personal information unless a parent has turned in the form
denying
permission. In most cases, this should be limited to the first name
only,
especially when associated with a photograph. At the secondary level,
there
may be instances in which full names could be used (i.e., athletic
rosters,
school news, etc.)."
So, I can assume student photos can appear on school web sites without
asking parent permission, right?
Can I also assume that it is ok to associate a first name with a picture
of
a student?
I understand that parents have the right to deny the above. I'd also
like to
know how long teachers have to wait for parents to return a form denying
permission before they can go ahead and publish student work and/or
photos.
Just wondering if all this is up to date, as the Word document linked
from
http://inside.seattleschools.org/area/main/forms/webdocuments.xml
explaining the above is dated August, 2001, and I know there was quite a
stir last fall over the confusing student internet access form. Thanks
-
Mark
Mark Ahlness
Arbor Heights
mahlness@attbi.com
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