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Teachers, union rep and community voice concerns over proposed employee electronic media policy
Summary
Public commenters and teachers told the board the draft electronic media policy is vague and risks chilling employees’ civic speech; administrators said the policy ties online conduct to existing staff standards and will be revised for clarity.
Several Garden City USD 457 staff and union representatives used public comment to press the Board of Education to revise the district’s proposed employee electronic media standards, saying parts of the policy are vague and could lead to inconsistent or viewpoint-based enforcement.
Levi Brinkman, president of the Garden City Education Association and a high school teacher, told trustees the policy’s language that employees “will be held to the same professional standards in their public use of their personal electronic media accounts as they are for any other public conduct”…
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