To Facebook or not? That is the question in Payerne
Payerne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Several students of the Gymnase Intercantonal de la Broye (GYB), a secondary school in canton Vaud, thought when school re-opened last week that they had lost access to Facebook and Messenger while in school. Online chatting and access to social platforms is still alive and well for the 900 students at GYB, the principal says.
According to school principal Thierry Maire, the bans, reported 1 September by some Swiss media, is not quite what the school is implementing.
“Students may use the Internet and connect to Facebook and MSN,” Maire told GenevaLunch. “However, we ask students to respect school rules which state that the “Internet must be primarily used for school related research.” Students may still use the Internet for private matters as long as it is not for lucrative purposes,” he adds.
Maire emphasized to Swiss 24 Heures that the massive access to social platforms and chatting rooms slows down the school’s Internet connection.
The canton does not set rules for online access in schools, and thus each institution decides its own course of action.
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News story, GenevaLunch, 2 September 2009.
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