Mentor - Student Interactions Online

[MechEng83]

I'd like to post a question to the general CD community.

Recently, one of our parent/mentors sent me an online article from the New York Times talking about school district policies on social media.

Here's an excerpt from that email:

FYI. We need a policy for the robotics team. I'm not seeing anything inappropriate on Facebook. Awareness will ensure nothing develops.

School districts across the country are imposing strict new guidelines that ban private conversations between teachers and their students on cellphones and online platforms. http://nyti.ms/tAHS39

What are your thoughts about this? I have very strong opinions on the matter, but I wanted to see what you all had to say about it.

Thanks!