All Jewish school girls’ off Facebook

[Misfit]

Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish girls’ school tells students to get off Facebook — or get out - NYPOST.com

For Facebook users at a Hasidic all-girls high school in Brooklyn, it’s either Exodus — or expulsion.

Students at the Orthodox Beth Rivkah HS have been ordered to immediately delete their accounts on the popular social-networking site and pay a $100 fine, or be kicked out of the school.

“Girls are getting killed on the Internet — that’s the reason for it,” Benzion Stock, administrator of the Crown Heights school, told The Post.

Stock said Facebook is also off-limits because it encourages girls to violate the Orthodox code of modesty.

“The Internet is a good way to ruin marriages and families,” Stock said. “We don’t want them there, period. It’s the wrong place for a Jewish girl to be. Facebook is not a modest thing to do.

 

[b23hqb]

The head counselor at my daughters public high school here in Tampa says the same thing, year after year at student/parent orientations - Facebook is the worst thing ever invented for teenagers to get involved in, especially girls.

I agree with her 1,000%. Facebook is just plain dangerous for minds of mush. So many of these kids get damaged by their "relationships" in cyberspace, and that carries over into their real life, if many of these kids actually have a life in the first place outside of electronics.

 

[twinoaks207]

Facebook, like any other technological development out there is merely a tool. Like any other tool, it is important to learn how to use it. We don't go around handing chainsaws to children but we routinely hand them computers and then don't teach them how to use them. Actions such as banning Facebook are counter-productive, especially with teenagers. Ban something around teenagers and what's the first thing they want to do? Find it, get it, do it, see it or whatever is banned. That's just what teenagers (and lots of other folks) do.

We need to stop banning the thing and focus on teaching them how to use it properly. It's time for the world to stop over every little thing and start approaching things with some thought.

 

[b23hqb]

Facebook, like any other technological development out there is merely a tool. Like any other tool, it is important to learn how to use it. We don't go around handing chainsaws to children but we routinely hand them computers and then don't teach them how to use them. Actions such as banning Facebook are counter-productive, especially with teenagers. Ban something around teenagers and what's the first thing they want to do? Find it, get it, do it, see it or whatever is banned. That's just what teenagers (and lots of other folks) do.

We need to stop banning the thing and focus on teaching them how to use it properly. It's time for the world to stop over every little thing and start approaching things with some thought.

You are not going to be able to teach teenagers anything about doing something "properly" when they already know everything about everything, and all their friends know it all as well.

Just ask them, especially when facebook was designed to be "for them" and was overtaken by grown-ups, and I use that term loosely.

No one outside these religious-specific schools are asking for a ban, as far as I know. That is the schools prerogative, and probably supported bymost of the parents of the students. If these kids cannot have a social life without predominantly being cyber-based and not face to face, they will learn nothing of any particular social use.

To me, Facebook, along with texting, is not any real technological development, but just another step closer to the Year 2525 - remember that song, when people will not need each other, just their tools for their own personal use?

In my old-fashioned, real face-to-face/voice-to-voice human interaction, most of the time, of course.

 

[Cheeky1]

Well intentioned the mandate is.....however, this school went about it the wrong way. The only way this mandate would work is if the parents kept ALL computers out of the teenagers hands and make sure teens don't have enough money to purchase another.

No, a more practical way is this: all cell/smart phones are checked in lockers at the door to the school.....each class is 30 minutes longer in length.....each class assigns 3 times the current amount of homework. Also, gym class will stretch to 1.5 hours and one, by the students/parents choice and after school, extracurricular physical activity is mandatory.

If the teens still have time to be on facebook....and are not utterly exhausted...I say let em. If they wind up failing due to being on facebook then the end result will be no different, but the academic standards of the school increased to combat the allure of FB.

On another note though. If the school's admin isn't thinking of a better way (than more zero tolerance BS) to limit FB use....then, IMO, the school is running on fumes and probably ought to close its doors. Changing out the administration might work though.....