New Jersey principal deputizes parents as cyber police

Christopher Dawson reports:

This is one from the overstepping-your-bounds-big-time-buddy department: The principal at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, sent an email to parents Wednesday morning telling them to ban their children from social networks and thoroughly police their electronic communications. This was not a suggestion or even an invitation to start a dialog with kids, parents, and the school about social media and cyberbullying. Principal Anthony Orsini deputized the parents in his school as cyber police in no uncertain terms….

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