Robbinsdale Area Schools serves 11,000 students in the northwestern suburbs of the Twin Cities. We’re here to partner with families, recognizing that every student is as unique as the hopes and dreams their families have for them. The way we see it, in our role as educators, our goal is to inspire young people to believe in themselves, develop a sense of belonging in their communities and become champions for the difference they can make. SOCIAL MEDIA DISCLAIMER:
Robbinsdale Area Schools (Rdale) appreciates your participation in our online communities. The district welcomes appropriate, relevant posts and comments that are respectful of others based on your own experiences, and suggestions for improvements or contributions to conversations on social media. To ensure these social media channels remain a secure and supportive environment for our schools and communities, we monitor comments posted, and may delete anything that is inappropriate, clearly off-topic, misleading, malicious, discriminatory, offensive, potentially libelous or defamatory toward any individual or protected class. Comments posted by the public do not in any way reflect the opinions or policies of the district. Employees and students who post content to Rdale social channels in violation of School Board policies and rules may be subject to discipline for such conduct. To keep our social media focused, we have set some guidelines.
⦿ Rdale abides by the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities for each social channel, and asks that you do the same.
⦿ District social media channels are moderated and all comments are reviewed by the district’s Communications Department.
⦿ To ensure exchanges are informative, respectful of diverse viewpoints and lawful, Rdale will not allow comments that are, or include:
• Off Topic: Rdale will hide or delete comments not related to the subject of posts or comments made.
• Spam: Comments focused on selling a product or service will be hidden or deleted.
• Personal Attacks: If you disagree with a post, we'd like to hear from you. Rdale does ask that you refrain from personal attacks or being disrespectful of others. Posts or comments in violation of this will be hidden or deleted.
• Illegal: Laws that govern use of copyrights, trade secrets, etc., will be followed.
• Language: Comments including but not limited to: profane or provocative language, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive or derogatory content, threats, obscene or sexually explicit language will be hidden or deleted. Language that violates a social media channel’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities will also be reported.
• Links to outside websites: Comments to include links to websites for any purpose will be hidden or deleted.
• Political: Rdale reserves the right to delete or hide any political campaigning or unauthorized commercial solicitations. Those in violation of our social media guidelines receive a warning via direct message or email. In the warning users are informed that they have violated our social media guidelines, are told which comment or behavior was in violation, and provided a copy of our social media guidelines. In the warning users are informed that any further violations will result in the user being blocked from the associated page. If the user violates our social media guidelines after they have been warned, they are then blocked from the associated page.
