Sherman High School Cheer

ontent of a posting is appropriate or inappropriate. A post that is determined to be inappropriate, as further defined by these rules, shall be immediately removed by the district. The intent of this policy is to protect the privacy and rights of Sherman ISD staff and students, and to ensure that visitors to the sites are not subjected to inappropriate content. These rules are supported by Sherman ISD Board Policies GKDA (Local) and GKB (Local). A post will be considered inappropriate if:
The post threatens physical violence or is obscene, vulgar, or sexually explicit;
The post endorses actions that endanger the health or safety of students or others;
The post promotes illegal use of drugs, alcohol, or other controlled substances;
The post contains untrue and potentially harmful statements about a person, otherwise identifies a specific person in a defamatory, abusive, or negative way, or violates a person’s privacy;
The post itself violates the law or encourages others to do so or advocates imminent lawless or disruptive action and is likely to incite or produce such action;
The post contains hate speech or similar language that offensively attacks any group (e.g., racist, sexist) or contains content aimed at creating hostility and violence;
The post does not relate to the topic of the information posted by the district (e.g., if a post references an athletic team winning an award, comments should relate to that topic)
The post violates the intellectual property rights of another person (e.g., do not post all or part of a copyrighted work without the permission of the owner; do not cut and paste images or logos from the internet that may be protected by copyright or trademark rights);
The post is an advertisement for good/services or is “spam” (i.e., repeatedly posting the same comment(s) for the purpose of advertising/promoting a service or product);
The post promotes any other organization that may be in competition with the district (e.g., charter schools, public schools, private schools, online schools or programs);
The post violates federal or state law or any Board policies regarding the protection of employee or student privacy or the confidentiality of employee or student records;
The post promotes, advocates, or electioneers for or against any candidate, measure, or political party or the post constitutes political literature (except as permitted by state law);
There is reasonable cause to believe that posting the information will result in material and substantial disruption or interference with school activities or the rights of others. Sherman ISD is not responsible for the content posted on this page by site visitors and does not endorse any content posted by site visitors.