We are New Hanover County Schools, providing high-quality education for more than 26,000 students in the diverse and vibrant coastal community of Wilmington, NC. With the support of our community, we will continue to engage students and achieve excellence.
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All of New Hanover County Schools’ social media pages will focus on celebrating and supporting our schools, students, and teachers, as well as sharing important news and communicating event information. We encourage you to share your support, connect with other supporters, and visit frequently for news and updates. For purposes of these guidelines, social media is defined as Internet-based applications that facilitate communication (e.g., interactive/two-way conversation/dialogue) and networking between individuals or groups, but does not include sending or receiving email through the use of district-issued email accounts. While we encourage good faith discussions and healthy and productive dialogue on social media, our first priority is to protect students, staff, board members, and community members. The district has the right and obligation to remove any social media posts or comments that do not adhere to New Hanover County Schools’ Technology Acceptable Use policies for students or staff, the Student Code of Conduct, and the commenting guidelines below. Under no circumstances will the district tolerate cyberbullying, cyberstalking, harassment, intimidation, and/or posts or comments that are discriminatory, racist, sexist, abusive, profane, violent, obscene, political in nature, spam, contain falsehoods, or that libel, incite, threaten or make ad hominem attacks on students, employees, guests, board members or other individuals. The district does not permit posts or comments that sell or promote products or other commercial ventures. Participation in the district’s social media outlets is at the discretion and risk of the individual. The district encourages user interaction on its social pages but is not responsible (beyond its monitoring obligations) for comments or postings made by visitors to the page. Additionally, the appearance of external links, as posted by fans of the district’s page or other social media users, does not constitute endorsement on behalf of the district. Social media users are reminded to not provide private or personal information (phone, email, addresses, etc.) regarding themselves or others on the district’s social media outlets. Any posts or comments containing personal information of this nature will be promptly removed and/or hidden.
