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Teacher’s privacy lost in the form of school email accounts

Rumors of the students school e-mails being archived by the administration are FALSE.

            There has been some talk about the student school e-mails being saved, kept, and read in the district office. The fact of the matter is that the students’ school e-mails are just like having g-mail accounts.

            Only the owner of the e-mail address can access their account and read their messages, not the district.

             “We’re not snooping,” Gregg Ramseth who works in the district office said with a laugh. “Nobody has time to look anyways!”

            Although the students’ school e-mails are definitely not being archived, the faculty and staff school e-mails certainly are.

            The law states that the district must have an archive system for protection in case of possible lawsuits.

            “I have no problem with it because we are at work using the district’s computer system. We should be responsible for what we write,” Duane Long said about the matter.

            The faculty’s and staff’s e-mail accounts are set up on the Google Apps mail system. Since there are multiple servers in the google base system, the e-mails are not saved on the districts premises, but are actually saved into a system called “Cloud Based Computing.” This is why the district needs an archive system.

            Though the district chose for the e-mails to only be saved for a year, the whole process is used purely for the protection of the faculty and staff.

            “They cautioned us when we switched to Google Apps email account that they could be read,” Katy Chamberlain explained.

            The way the archive system is used is that if for any reason there is a federal lawsuit against a faculty member and the district has been asked to search for a certain word that might have been said in an e-mail, the district has the right to do a word search in the system to sort out the e-mails that use that specific word.

            This instance is somewhat rare, but the faculty members understand that the archive system is used only to protect them if needed.

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