Duval High School

About

Duval High School, Armidale, is an outstanding State Government school.

Story

Duval High School, Armidale, is located in the New England region of NSW. The school was established in 1974. It is a centre of excellence in drama and public speaking and has received the Director General's Award of Excellence for Support for Student Learning and for Teaching. Duval High School has developed a history of excellence and achievement in many academic, cultural and sporting areas. The school has close community ties with UNE and the city generally. It also has a strong supportive parent community. The vision of Duval High School is to provide a caring, challenging educational environment where each individual is encouraged towards self-fulfilment, concern for others and the co-operative pursuit of excellence. Duval High School seeks to ensure a quality educational program for all students, providing a diverse curriculum, offering effective welfare programs and a wide range of cultural and sporting opportunities.

Mission

Rules of Engagement

In joining our community on Facebook, Duval High School follows both the DEC Code of Conduct and Facebook terms and conditions.


Students

Please note that the Facebook terms and conditions state that no one under the age of 13 years should have a Facebook profile. Therefore, any primary students who 'Like' or comment on the Duval High School Facebook page will be deleted and reported immediately.


Comments Policy

Duval High School encourages interaction from Facebook users but is not responsible for comments or wall postings made by visitors to the page.

Comments posted also do not in any way reflect the opinions or policies of Duval High School.

Duval High School asks that people making comments on the page show respect for their fellow users by ensuring the discussion remains civil, especially since Facebook allows individuals 13 and over to join.

Comments are also subject to Facebook's Terms of Use and Code of Conduct.

Remember that your name and photo will be seen next to your comment, visible to the tens of thousands of visitors to the page.

We reserve the right, but assume no obligation, to remove comments that are racist, sexist, abusive, profane, violent, obscene, spam, that advocate illegal activity, contain falsehoods or are wildly off-topic, or that libel, incite, threaten or make ad hominem attacks on Duval High School students, employees, guests or other individuals.

We also do not permit messages selling products or promoting commercial, political or other ventures.

Facebook encourages all users to utilize the "Report" links when they find abusive content.

Friending Staff on Facebook

Please note that the Department of Education and Communities has this advice for teachers 'Friending' parents on Facebook:

The line between your professional and personal life could become blurred making it difficult to manage your professional relationship with the parents when that becomes necessary.

You also need to bear in mind that becoming a Facebook friend with a parent could result in their children getting access to your account as well.

You also need to be mindful that you need to be careful what you say on Facebook if you have parents as friends as comments made online can be misunderstood and could result in parental complaints made to your principal.

In short, please do not ask to friend a member of staff on Facebook as refusal often offends.

If Duval High School needs to remove something for breach of their page, you will see the comment; ”This comment was deleted as it breached the Rules of Engagement published in our “About” section. We ask all community members to read these rules so that this page remains a friendly, supportive resource for all.”

Thank You
Bruce Myers
Facebook Co-ordinator
Duval High School

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