[Spoozer12]

Senate Bill 181

1. Social Media Interaction: Does this mean that if you’re a teacher or a coach, you can’t comment on or connect with students on social media at all?
   
2. Connection to Parents: Can you still be connected to the parents of the students you teach or coach?
   
3. Volunteer Roles: If you’re an assistant coach who is only a volunteer, do you still need to avoid any online contact with students outside of the school system?
   
4. Double Duty Roles: I know many individuals around the state work multiple roles such as coaches, referees, sports writers, photographers, and live broadcasters. What are they allowed to do in terms of social media and interactions with students?
   
5. Volunteers and Communication: For those who assist teams as volunteers or assistant coaches, are they required to unfollow or avoid social media contact with the athletes?

Overall, this seems like overkill and I’m concerned it will make communication with student-athletes incredibly difficult. 

[Blacksmith]

heres a recent school board post that gives some particulars.... This pertains to students.. not parents
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Schools is updating how staff and volunteers communicate with students and families. Moving forward, only approved, traceable, and district-monitored platforms may be used to ensure safety, transparency, and compliance with the law.
Under SB 181, all school-related electronic communication with students must occur through these district-approved systems:
✅ ParentSquare
✅ Google Suite (District accounts only)
✅ Microsoft Email (District-assigned)
✅ Infinite Campus (IC)
? Communication through any other platform is strictly prohibited, including but not limited to:
❌ Facebook
❌ Facebook Messenger
❌ X (formerly Twitter)
❌ Instagram
❌ Snapchat
❌ TikTok
❌ WhatsApp
❌ Text messaging from personal devices
❌ Personal email or other messaging apps
?‍?‍?‍? Families
• Family members (parent, brother, sister, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, or grandparent) and legal guardians who are employees or volunteers are exempt from this policy when communicating with their own children or family members.
? Parents:
You will receive a notice within the first 10 days of the school year listing the specific communication platforms your child’s school will be using, along with instructions for access.
? Coaches & Team Leads:
You will be provided with full details during your July training sessions, including a link and instructions to set up a traceable ParentSquare account for team communication.

[ArmChairHC]

It’s a slippery slope. But one that I feel has to happen in some regard. The world we live in now, is far to conducive to allowing bad people to do bad things. I had that it’s come to a point that the good people out there are penalized for others mistakes, but when you are dealing with kids, you have to have some sort of statute of limitations with social media.

[RAMDAD50]

We all know we have an issue in America with teachers becoming way to familiar with students. Something has to be done to ensure the safety of both the students and the teachers. Young teachers these days try to be buddies with their students and there’s just no place for that….it leads to confusion for the students and opens doors for predator teachers. Most schools have an app that they use to communicate with students and student athletes. There needs to be zero one on one communication with a student.

[plantmanky]

Kids in your neighborhood mow your grass, do yard work, rake your leaves, clear snow off driveway....not anymore.

School aged kids babysit your kids, not anymore.

Here is two examples just since this law went into effect.

1.  14 year old girl who was home (only child) while here mom was at work, put chicken nuggets in the oven, when she went to get them out, she burnt her arm on the oven (we have all done it at some point), she tried to call her mom at work, no answer, so she text her neighbor because she knew she was home, neighbor is a teacher......oh uh violation, neighbor now looses their job over a minor medical issue.

2.  Teacher, whos family has owned an ice cream shop for 40 plus years and for the most part manages the shop now when shes not in the classroom, has to now fire her 20+ HS aged kids that work for her, now that she can no longer communicate with them, family business could be in jeopardy.  HS also losing a job because of this.

I could go on but those are two just since last week.


All 138 legislatures that voted for this (and it was all of them) should immediately be recalled.  This law spent 27 minutes in committee, and went straight to vote.  Not 1 brain cell was used on this, not one.

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We all know we have an issue in America with teachers becoming way to familiar with students. Something has to be done to ensure the safety of both the students and the teachers. Young teachers these days try to be buddies with their students and there’s just no place for that….it leads to confusion for the students and opens doors for predator teachers. Most schools have an app that they use to communicate with students and student athletes. There needs to be zero one on one communication with a student.

That starts on the parents, for not monitoring their kids phones and social media, period. 


Then again, half the parents are putting their kids out there for that stuff anyways.

[RAM-A-DEVIL]

Another example of the pussification of America. This country started going down the tubes back years and years ago when that lady burned her lip on hot coffee at McDonald’s. She won a big settlement and McDonald’s had to put HOT on their cups. We’ve declined as a country since

[Shogun]

Another example of the pussification of America. This country started going down the tubes back years and years ago when that lady burned her lip on hot coffee at McDonald’s. She won a big settlement and McDonald’s had to put HOT on their cups. We’ve declined as a country since

Not to go off on tangents, but this is a bad example. The coffee was way too hot, which was proven in court. The woman was hospitalized for 8 days after the incident and had to receive skin grafts to her thighs, buttocks, and groin. This was framed as frivolous litigation but in reality she wasn't even asking for much in terms of compensation.

Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants

[i82much]

Let me emphasize, I'm for the changes. It provides a much more professional and public way to communicate with students and definitely helps to prevent this type of abuse...in the end it solves the issue for the school system but not the abuse of kids which is much more likely to occur outside our educational system. As an educator for over 30 years I've seen first hand how abuse at home or close to home is reported via a text to a teacher or a coach. For whatever reason kids these days are much more comfortable texting than conversing at school with a counselor or a teacher. These changes are a step in the right direction but just a band-aid on a broken leg in terms of the broader picture of child abuse. I don't have the answer.

[TheTruth!]

SB 181 is like of banning guns. Bad people will continue to find a way and good people will suffer. This rule is a joke… Could this be Overturned?? I have a Friend who is a stepmother for years and she cannot have her Stepchildren on Facebook or anything. THATS CRAZY SHE LIVES WITH THEM

[Blacksmith]

Im not taking sides on this bill one way or the other but this protects teachers from kids to. You don't hear the stories in the public, but teachers and those in education hear them every year about a teacher being raked over the coals in investigations because a student claimed this or that after gaining access to a social media account. Happens all the time.. Its the reason many teachers already had a self imposed rule of no students on social media.. Im not saying its the norm but it happens more than you know

[plantmanky]

Im not taking sides on this bill one way or the other but this protects teachers from kids to. You don't hear the stories in the public, but teachers and those in education hear them every year about a teacher being raked over the coals in investigations because a student claimed this or that after gaining access to a social media account. Happens all the time.. Its the reason many teachers already had a self imposed rule of no students on social media.. Im not saying its the norm but it happens more than you know

It actually does the opposite as well.  All a student has to do is find out a teachers cell number and text them, anything, and the teacher loses their career.  Just wait till school starts, and students are instructed they cant text teachers/coaches, what is the first thing they will do..............

[Old School Hound]

I think Plant dude is on point here. Do you people seriously think your children need protected from solid citizens like me?

[TheTruth!]

Im not taking sides on this bill one way or the other but this protects teachers from kids to. You don't hear the stories in the public, but teachers and those in education hear them every year about a teacher being raked over the coals in investigations because a student claimed this or that after gaining access to a social media account. Happens all the time.. Its the reason many teachers already had a self imposed rule of no students on social media.. Im not saying its the norm but it happens more than you know

It actually does the opposite as well.  All a student has to do is find out a teachers cell number and text them, anything, and the teacher loses their career.  Just wait till school starts, and students are instructed they cant text teachers/coaches, what is the first thing they will do..............

I think it’s crazy you can’t text your coach privately about a family issue or something very important. I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing it and having to say it in a group with parents and other teammates.