Deleted Facebook Comments in District 308 Raise Plenty of Questions

Should a local school district allow parents and taxpayers to have their say on social media accounts managed by school officials? Should they interact with those who comment? Or should they erase any negativity from public view? Those questions are being raised in Oswego School District 308 regarding the school system’s Facebook page.

Journalist Steven Jack delves into the issue on OnlyOswego.com:

Parents who have recently taken to the Oswego School District 308 Facebook page to question the district on a number of issues have found their comments deleted from the page, and some have been banned from the page altogether.

In the age of social media, governmental bodies deleting negative comments from their official Facebook pages is nothing new. However, the District 308 Facebook page lacks a policy statement detailing what kind of comments are and are not allowed. Such a policy could justify the deletion of comments in violation.

Over the course of the past two weeks, deleted comments collected by Only Oswego have ranged from a question over the change of the district’s name to others wanting answers regarding district expenditures. Repeated emails and phone calls to the District 308 administration for comment and a copy of an internal or external Facebook policy have not been returned.

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