Law limiting teacher-student online contact draws ire:

Recently the state of Missouri has enacted a set of laws to prevent teachers from entering into inappropriate relationships with their students. One of those laws is that teachers could not privately communicate with students through Facebook or other social networking sites. Of course, this has teachers outraged. Even the ACLU is getting involved.

Teachers say that this punishes all teachers for the sins of the criminal ones. You’ll have to forgive me for possibly being old-fashioned, but I wouldn’t want a teacher contacting one of my children outside of school wherein the contact circumvents the parent.

If kids have a question about their schoolwork where they need to contact their teacher outside of school, it should be done through a school-monitored website and not something like Facebook, where a parent may not have any control.