Patriot Elementary School

At Patriot, we work to develop an excellent school which offers a safe, healthy, stimulating, and supportive environment cultivating an effective educational program of excellence enhancing the positive growth of a competent, confident and happy child. To All Patriot Facebook friends:

Patriot Elementary staff and the FFC8 Public Information Office maintain and operate this Facebook site as a lim

ited public forum for dissemination and exchange of information of interest to parents, students, staff and the community. Although Patriot encourages pertinent and thoughtful questions, comments and concerns, all users must understand that this is not an open forum, but instead is a moderated online discussion site in which all users must adhere to some basic rules for advancement of Patriot’s educational mission. Users should be mindful at all times that any comments/posts are public and may be viewed and used by anyone. Any comments that have no relation to the post to which they are directed may be deleted.

2. All posts and private messages may or may not solicit a response from the school or district, depending on timing and content of the post/message. If you have an immediate concern or need to report something of a pressing matter, please call 719-382-1300 or use Safe2Tell.

3. The following content or language is expressly prohibited on this site:

-- Comments, pictures or graphics that, in the sole judgment of FFC8, are obscene, defamatory, abusive, profane, vulgar, or sexually explicit;
-- Personal attacks upon or derogatory comments concerning any individual's character or appearance;
-- Comments or information concerning confidential matters involving individual District students or staff members, or that violate the privacy of any FFC8 student or staff member;
-- Content that expresses, promotes, fosters or perpetuates discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, age, religion, gender, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or national origin;
-- Sexual content or links to sexual content;
-- Advertisements or solicitations for private business or commerce;
-- Content that is illegal or in violation of FFC8 policy or regulations, or that encourages, promotes or condones such illegal conduct or violation;
-- Threats or other information or comments that, in the sole judgment of FFC8, compromise the safety or security of students or staff, or any school or other public facility or systems;
-- Content that violates copyrights or property interests of any other party;
-- Comments or posts in support of, or in opposition to, the nomination, retention or election of any person to public office, or that urge voters to vote in favor of or against any ballot issue or referred measure, including any posts containing links to political campaign or candidate websites; and
-- Comments or posts that are excessively long or repetitive, or that concern topics or issues that are not FFC8-related. Please abide by the above rules for the Patriot page. Patriot and FFC8 reserve the right to remove at any time and without prior notice any and all comments or other material posed on this page that does not conform to the aforementioned rules, and to deny access to FFC8 social media sites to any individual who repeatedly violates such rules. The foregoing rules are subject to amendment or modification at any time without prior notice. Patriot and FFC8 does not sponsor or endorse any content posted on this social media site by third party users and such posts do not necessarily represent the views or position of Patriot or FFC8. Complaints about Facebook posts should be directed to:

Christy McGee, APR
Public Information Officer
Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8
10665 Jimmy Camp Road
Fountain, CO 80817
719-382-1318
www.FFC8.org