Dear MCS Families,
Middleburgh Central School district’s Facebook and Twitter accounts were created for all to follow and participate in discussions about news and information, as well as issues that affect the people, school, and organizations MCS serves. The district’s Instagram page was created last year to share photos, videos and accomplishments with our community and beyond.
Please do not use our social media channels in place of standard communication practices, such as contacting your school principal to share personal issues and concerns. Recently, photos of our students that we shared on social media were used in personal attacks by others outside of the school district. That is not fair or acceptable. Our parents and guardians who have said they love to see photos of classes and students doing special things, have voiced their concerns and have become hesitant about allowing photos of their children to be posted because of this act. As part of an ongoing effort that our social media channels remain highly focused and valuable, comments will be documented and shared with MCS personnel.
We want our school community channels to be positive, sharing and caring spaces, so we have set in place some basic ground rules. We invite an open and civil discussion for all items posted on our social media platforms. Any and all comments will be monitored and reviewed to ensure they comply with our commenting guidelines.
To ensure that your voice is heard, please follow our social media commenting guidelines:
- Please use common courtesy. You must demonstrate appropriate respect for others. If you disagree with an opinion, feel free to challenge that opinion with a comment of your own. But please, no personal attacks.
- Comments viewed as flaming, abusive or offensive will be removed. We will not allow any comments that are obscene or contain profanity or that may be hateful or offensive on racial, ethnic, sexual or any other grounds; are harmful, vulgar or distasteful; or are defamatory, libelous, or invade another person’s privacy.
- Just be yourself. You may not represent that you are any other person, whether real or invented, or imply any connection with any person or organization with which you are not in fact associated. The use of multiple identities is not permitted.
- Stay on topic. Comments that do not pertain to the subject matter at hand will be removed.
- Respect copyrights. Please respect the copyright of other users, organizations, websites, media, etc. Citing of published material: Referencing and/or linking to material published in other newspapers, blogs, and other sources is fine; so is limited use of excerpts. Cutting and pasting of entire articles or lengthy excerpts is not allowed. We are not responsible for any comments that violate copyright laws and will not take any steps to verify that comments do not violate any copyright laws.
- No advertising, please. Unauthorized advertising, business solicitation, promotional items, “spam” or junk mail will be removed.
- By commenting, you also recognize that your comments are your own, and that you hold Middleburgh Central School district and all subsidiaries and representatives harmless from any and all repercussions, damages, or liability.
We reserve the right to remove any comment at any time from our social media, without limitation, if it violates the above rules. We thank you for your productive contributions to our page!
For questions regarding our social media guidelines or to report abuse, please contact our Communications Director, Julia Lilkendey at news@mcsdny.org.
Sincerely,
Brian Dunn
Superintendent of Schools