Teachers warned off online Facebook contact with students. TEACHERS would be banned from contacting students on social-networking websites like Facebook or Myspace under proposed changes to their code of ethics. The move comes after the WA College of Teaching disciplinary committee reprimanded about 10 teachers in the past year for inappropriate cyber interaction with students. The behaviour included teachers sharing private photos with students and in some cases engaging in online sexual innuendo. WACOT's disciplinary committee chairwoman, Theresa Howe, said the code of ethics needed to be updated to specifically target inappropriate and over-friendly computer correspondence between students and teachers.
``We're seeing an increase in it and it has to be specifically addressed,'' she said. ``That should be in both the code of ethics and in professional development courses for teachers.'' Under proposed changes, teachers would be banned from becoming friends with students on social-networking sites. ``That barrier cannot be crossed.'' Terms of Use » TermsofUse. How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community. Code of Conduct. Ubuntu is about showing humanity to one another: the word itself captures the spirit of being human. We want a productive, happy and agile community that can welcome new ideas in a complex field, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between groups with very different needs, interests and skills.
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