do You place a lot of trust in the staff at your dc school and would you like them to then discuss

[2shoes]

the things they witness on the web.
I wonder as time and time again people on mn, who work with sn dc's use their charges/pupils as thread material.
for me it is a blatant breaking of trust.
in an sn school you allow people into your lives, much more than you would in a ms school. they know so much about your child.
I think that all staff should have to sign a confidentiality agreement.

don't they do so anonimously? or do you think that is still wrong?

I can imagine mn bing a good place for sn teachers to bounce off and learn?

seems to me thay make uniformed judgements on parenting(there are exceptions like the lovely Christie)
but surely vunerable young people sand their familys deserve priavcy.

Absolutly 2shoes, people working in such environments are bound by the data protection act. That is why I am always very careful to be so general that no breaches of the act are made.

I think there are two issues. The confidentiality thing - well technically, if the child can't be identified by the details given, their privacy is still secure. But, like you, I'm very uneasy about staff discussing children on the internet, because of the other issue, which is that however personal their knowledge, they have at best half the story. The nature of SN is so varied and children can behave so differently at home, that anyone who only works with them at school really isn't in a position to have an authoritative opinion outside of their education.

Yet they will cheerfully expound their half-a-story to an internet forum (usually of NT parents who have no idea either) and get a response agreeing with their half-baked theory because no-one can give the other side of the story. So they come away smug and vindicated and go back into their school environment with their prejudices against the parents reinforced.

That really, really pisses me off. If you work with SN kids you need to be big enough to realise that parenting them is a somewhat different proposition. Walk a mile in these shoes.

well said

The Data Protection requires that data not be released if a living individual could be identified by the facts/circumstances of the case so even if the name is not given, it could still be a breach of the DPA act.

I completely agree with r3dh3d.