P-H-M Social Media Rules of Engagement
Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation and its individual schools may have an official presence on social networking sites, such as Facebook. All P-H-M social media accounts serve the purpose of disseminating information about the P-H-M School District to students, staff, parents, and citizens to our school communities and the greater community at large. The district's social media accounts are not intended to be a public forum. Frequent offenders may be blocked from district social media sites and page administrators reserve the right to remove any comment at any time for any reason. Comments that contain/involve any of the following will not be tolerated and will be deleted:
- abusive, obscene, vulgar, and inappropriate language
- comments or content that promotes, fosters, or perpetuates discrimination or hostility on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, or any other unlawful basis of discrimination
- derogatory language or personal attacks directed at individual(s), whether a student, a staff member, or a community member
- information that violates a student's or staff member's right to privacy
- information that may compromise the safety, security, or proceedings of any person, public system, or any criminal or civil investigation
- advocacy of illegal or violent activity
- jokes made about tragedies
- solicitations or advertisements for external businesses, products or commercial transactions
- spam or links to other sites
- comments that are posted repeatedly
- comments or discussions that are off topic
- negative comments or negative discussion threads that are made on positive posts and pictures of students and staff members
Any account that violates these rules is subjected to being blocked by this page. Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation is not responsible for content posted by others. The comments and opinions expressed by members of the public are theirs alone and do not reflect the opinions of the district or its employees. Communications made through the district's social media sites will in no way constitute a legal or official notice or comment to the district or any district official or employee for any purpose. Information shared with or posted to official district pages by the public is also subject to the Terms of Service of the host site and may be used by the owners of the host site for its own purposes. P-H-M social media sites are third party sites and the host sites have Terms of Service and policies that are not governed by the district. The posts made on this page are meant to show the joy of learning, positive learning environment, student and staff achievement, highlight the district's commitment to academic excellence, and the wide range of extracurricular and cocurricular programs.
