Employee personal communication with students, in all forms including oral and nonverbal shall be appropriate and consistent with Board policy. Personal communication shall be deemed to be inappropriate if such communication is sexual in nature; is sexually suggestive; suggests romantic activity with student or students; or is otherwise inconsistent with Board policy. Violation of this provision will result in disciplinary action up to and including dismissal.
Communications between employees and students will be primarily direct, oral or written in nature. Employee’s communication with students and/or teacher’s electronic media must be made available to the student’s parents/guardians.
The District does not have sufficient staff to monitor every communication between employees and student and does not, therefore, commit to monitoring such communication. Nonetheless, where there is reason to believe that an employee has inappropriately communicated with a student(s) they may require the teacher to provide access to the specific communication in question.
The District will allow official electronic media communication (ie: personal cell phone, facebook, etc.) which will be utilized by employees for communication with students only for dissemination of school related information (i.e. homework, practice schedules, supplemental instructional material.) As restricted in this policy the phrase “electronic media” includes but is not limited to social networks, texting, and emails. This policy is not meant to disallow electronic communication between students, parents/guardians, grandparents and/or family members.