Privacy

Hello
I would like to remind you of one thing:
This blog is the online face of our co-op, and some of the comments and posts here may misrepresent our organization.
Say a parent thinking of homeschooling comes to our site. What do they see?
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An Exploding Monkey said...
bla bla bla bla!

i said...
Turtle

etc.
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this could possibly discourage them from joining our group.

Some of you seem to have a misconception of the blog.
I will include a quote from "an exploding monkey"

"You can use this page of the blog as a sort of private chat space if you want." (speaking to a suspicious stranger called Jaxyn who was asking us our names interests and genders.)

You see, this blog is PUBLIC. Anyone can look at it.
It might be a good idea to
1) find a new place for goofy comments/chatting and make this into a serious website. For example, we could move our goofy comments to here.
2) Continue being goofy but only allow real Gorge Home Learners co-op members to visit this blog. We could all still access it but it would block strangers.

One other issue with the blog is that there is no anonymity, and some of the kids might not know about internet privacy. If they choose to disregard those privacy guidelines that is alright. However, they do not currently refrain from mentioning other users' full names. This issue would be solved by limiting the blog's audience.

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