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PITTSBURG —
Many years ago, there was no such thing as a social media policy in schools. But as the times changed, so did the policies.
On Monday night, the USD 250 Pittsburg school board amended its social media policies to keep up with the changes, as well as in response to an incident earlier this year.
The changes are largely minor in the social media policy. Perhaps the biggest change is the addition of the words “on or while utilizing school property” to much of the existing language.
“We were having issues with kids misusing cell phones with picture capabilities,” said Destry Brown, USD 250 superintendent. “We didn’t have anything in our policy addressing that. The policy had not progressed as much as technology had. We’ll probably have to amend it more as technology evolves.”
In Pittsburg, the catalyst was an incident in which a Pittsburg Community Middle School student sent pictures by text message to her boyfriend, a student at Pittsburg High School. The pictures were then forwarded on to others.
“This makes sure we are covered all the way around as far as usage,” Brown said. “We struck a few things out, but what was struck was reworded above.”
The school board also awarded bids for the construction of phase one of a new softball field near Pittsburg High School.
The earthwork, which has already begun, is being donated by Radell Construction with an approximate value of $15,000.
Several other companies were awarded bids for certain items. Nates won the bid for grading and installing the infield and warning track for a combined $21,000. Midwest Minerals will also donate $700 worth of AgLime to the task.
As far as a 10-foot wide concrete sidewalk, that will be done by Next Generation in the amount of $11,200.
Next Generation will also take care of a certain sized pipe in the amount of $5,880, while Nates provides the other pipe for $4,335. Both of these pipes are needed for the storm sewer for the project.
Tri State Construction won the low bid for installation of the fence with roughly $18,700.
School Board member Todd Biggs offered to install the irrigation for a lower price than the lowest bid, and Brown said that the two would have further discussions about that possibility.
“The [bids] are pretty close to what I estimated, about where I thought they needed to be for us to do that,” Brown said.
All told, school board members approved bids worth up to $71,909 for the project.
In other action, the school board:
• reviewed the results of a parent bullying survey.
• reviewed the audit report with Daryl Eagon of Diehl Banwart Bolton.
• heard a preliminary presentation on potential changes to the testing system coming in the future.
Many years ago, there was no such thing as a social media policy in schools. But as the times changed, so did the policies.
On Monday night, the USD 250 Pittsburg school board amended its social media policies to keep up with the changes, as well as in response to an incident earlier this year.
The changes are largely minor in the social media policy. Perhaps the biggest change is the addition of the words “on or while utilizing school property” to much of the existing language.
“We were having issues with kids misusing cell phones with picture capabilities,” said Destry Brown, USD 250 superintendent. “We didn’t have anything in our policy addressing that. The policy had not progressed as much as technology had. We’ll probably have to amend it more as technology evolves.”
In Pittsburg, the catalyst was an incident in which a Pittsburg Community Middle School student sent pictures by text message to her boyfriend, a student at Pittsburg High School. The pictures were then forwarded on to others.
“This makes sure we are covered all the way around as far as usage,” Brown said. “We struck a few things out, but what was struck was reworded above.”
The school board also awarded bids for the construction of phase one of a new softball field near Pittsburg High School.
The earthwork, which has already begun, is being donated by Radell Construction with an approximate value of $15,000.
Several other companies were awarded bids for certain items. Nates won the bid for grading and installing the infield and warning track for a combined $21,000. Midwest Minerals will also donate $700 worth of AgLime to the task.
As far as a 10-foot wide concrete sidewalk, that will be done by Next Generation in the amount of $11,200.
Next Generation will also take care of a certain sized pipe in the amount of $5,880, while Nates provides the other pipe for $4,335. Both of these pipes are needed for the storm sewer for the project.
Tri State Construction won the low bid for installation of the fence with roughly $18,700.
School Board member Todd Biggs offered to install the irrigation for a lower price than the lowest bid, and Brown said that the two would have further discussions about that possibility.
“The [bids] are pretty close to what I estimated, about where I thought they needed to be for us to do that,” Brown said.
All told, school board members approved bids worth up to $71,909 for the project.
In other action, the school board:
• reviewed the results of a parent bullying survey.
• reviewed the audit report with Daryl Eagon of Diehl Banwart Bolton.
• heard a preliminary presentation on potential changes to the testing system coming in the future.
