Social Media Guidelines and Rules of Engagement
The intent of the offical school’s Facebook page is to provide a hub for responsible and respectful community engagement that celebrates our school. We proactively support participation in social media to develop and grow digital citizenship throughout our community. Lismore South Public School values the responsible use of social media, following the Department of Education Code of Conduct and Facebook's Community Standards.
Page Guidelines
We reserve the right to remove any content that we believe is in breach of these policies, guidelines and the values of our school. Lismore South Public School will remove content if it contains:
• Offensive, abusive, obscene, profane, hateful, or racist content, links or images
• Comments that threaten or defame any person or organisation
• The direct, full name or descriptive reference to an individual
• Solicitations and advertisements by other organisations
• Multiple or repetitive posts by a single user trying to be used in a coercive way
• Comments that include falsehoods or are wildly off-topic
• Anything else that the school deems inappropriate and does not align with our school values, Department of Education values, standards, policies and guidelines.
We reserve the right to remove any participant that does not adhere to the rules of engagement or Facebook's Community Standards. We will not permit messages selling products or promoting commercial, political or other ventures.
Comments
Lismore South Public School encourages interaction from Facebook users but is not responsible for comments or wall postings made by visitors to the school’s Facebook page. Comments posted also do not in any way reflect the opinions or policies of Lismore South Public School. We ask that visitors making comments on the page show respect for other users by ensuring discussions remains civil. Personal attacks, trolling or spam will not be tolerated.
Posting, tagging or naming student photos
Photos of students can only be published if the Department of Education permission to publish form has been completed. For children’s privacy and protection, please do not tag photos of children, and please do not name them in your comments. On rare occasions and with parental permission, students may be named by the school Facebook administration team. Tagging of parents or friends within the comment box is permitted with the understanding that all other rules of engagement are followed.
Students
Please note that the Facebook Terms and Conditions state no one under the age of 13 years should have a Facebook profile. Therefore, any primary students who 'Like' or comment on the Lismore South Public School Facebook page will have their post deleted and profile removed from our school page.
Friending staff on Facebook
Please do not ask to friend a member of staff on Facebook as refusal often offends. The Department of Education has the following advice for teachers 'Friending' parents on Facebook: The line between your professional and personal life could become blurred making it difficult to manage your professional relationship with the parents when that becomes necessary. You need to bear in mind that becoming a Facebook friend with a parent could result in children getting access to your account. You also need to be mindful that you need to be careful what you say on Facebook if you have parents as friends, as comments made online can be misunderstood and could result in parental complaints made to your principal.
Moderation Hours
This page is moderated from 9am to 3pm on weekdays. School administrators regularly monitor the site and will remove comments that do not adhere to our rules of engagement. Facebook encourages all users to also use the "Report" links when they find abusive content.
For further information regarding the use of our official social media channels please contact the Principal at lismoresth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au