A New Era of Teams: Difference between revisions

“The second reason for the changes to Teams involved the separation of the school buildings, which I know was a main area of the respondents' complaints.  The reason for this change was student safety.  If you think about how brick-and-mortar schools are set up, there are none that I am aware of that would allow 4th graders and 12th graders to navigate the same hallways unmonitored for obvious reasons.  As Teams effectively represents our "hallways" and there is no way for our staff to be monitoring them to ensure safe interactions at all times, we simply needed to make a change for safety reasons.  I realize that this led to making it less easy for some students who were already in relationships to keep connected and that not all of these relationships were "unsafe", but I can only assure you (without getting into unsavory or identifying details) that this was not always the case.  If even one older student was inappropriate with a younger one it would be one too many and sadly this occurred more than once.  For that reason, the safety of all of our students needed to take precedence over the convenience of some and we simply had to separate the buildings.” Mr. Deitch also goes further, stating that he knows he speaks “For all of our staff when I say that we care greatly about all of our student's experiences here at NSA and we hate frustrating any of our students, even if it is only a few.  But at the end of the day, we have a God-given responsibility to ensure your safety and we take that quite seriously.  The recent Teams changes were our best attempt at improving the accessibility and safety of the platform without removing too much of what students enjoyed.  We also strived to add new things like "The Courtyard", the "Bye! I Will Miss You!", "University and Life Readiness" and a "General" channel where announcements could be easily found, to hopefully enhance all of our students' Teams experience.”

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