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Quick Look: Online Interactions Between Teachers and Students

Dec 19, 2011

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Highlighting how worst-case scenarios of inappropriate online interactions between students and teachers can push schools to take "15 steps back whenever there is an incident.”

Source: Nytimes

The policies come as educators deal with a wide range of new problems. Some teachers have set poor examples by posting lurid comments or photographs involving sex or alcohol on social media sites. Some have had inappropriate contact with students that blur the teacher-student boundary.