Re: [Phys-l] Should teachers blog???

["John Clement" <clement@hal-pc.org>]

The E-mails being public is serious.  I get E-mails from teachers where the
school system has appended a note saying that they are public records.  In
other words if a parent asks for information about their children, you can
not supply it in an E-mail.  Written information can be more carefully
worded than verbal info.  So the alternative is to send a note home, but you
do not have any assurance that it will arrive.

While teacher's E-mails could be perused by administrators in case of a
conflict, they should not be public records.  And if this sort of thing is
to be a public record, then the legislators mails should also be public
records.  The point is that they should grant the same privacy rights to
others that they themselves demand.

John M. Clement
Houston, TX
> On 2011, Feb 17, , at 14:09, John Clement wrote:
>
> >  If teacher's E-mails are public, then legislators E-mails should also
> > be public.  I would favor a constitutional amendment that would make
> > legislators subject to all laws affecting their constituents, and only
> > allowing them to have benefits that are given to all of their employees.
> > Actually this should be enacted for corporations also.  So Enron
> executives
> > would not be able to dump their Enron stock when the employees are
> similarly
> > restricted from doing this.
> >
> > John M. Clement
> > Houston, TX
>
>
> You're not serious are you?