LAPS: Prompt Response To Thursday's iPhone Incident By School LAHS And LAMS Administrators - Los Alamos Reporter

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Earlier today, Los Alamos Middle School and Los Alamos High School medication learned that inappropriate images were sent to students’ iPhones done the AirDrop diagnostic connected the phones.

School administrators promptly investigated the substance and were capable to place the source. Appropriate enactment was taken successful respect to the incident.

Classes continued with nary interruptions.

Families are encouraged to cheque their student’s telephone to guarantee determination are nary inappropriate images.

It is bully signifier to show your student’s devices connected a regular ground including substance messages, photos and societal media accounts.

AirDropping photos is not allowed connected campus. Please marque definite this diagnostic is disabled connected your student’s iPhone.

Here are immoderate net information tips from Scholastic for students and families:

• Keep It Real: It whitethorn dependable wholly lame to a teen’s ears, but pursuing the Golden Rule erstwhile societal networking is the champion mode to support from being bullied oregon harassed. Research has shown that those who harass others online often go victims of harassment themselves. Encourage your kids to debar occupation by being themselves, being honest, and treating others with respect — conscionable similar they would successful the existent world.
• Protect Your Passwords: Kids are ne'er excessively aged to beryllium reminded that passwords should ne'er beryllium shared with anyone, adjacent friends. The strongest passwords are combinations of letters and numbers and don’t see names oregon different identifiable accusation that tin beryllium easy guessed. Promote information portion respecting your kids’ privateness by inviting them to seal their passwords successful an envelope and committedness to unfastened it lone successful an emergency.
• Post With Caution: Posting idiosyncratic accusation oregon inappropriate messages tin enactment kids astatine hazard with strangers arsenic good arsenic friends. Once a connection oregon representation is e-mailed oregon posted, it’s astir intolerable to get it back. Friends interruption up, but a representation connected the Internet is forever. If they person profiles connected networking sites similar Facebook oregon Tumblr, punctual your kids that immoderate they station becomes public. Anything they wouldn’t privation a alien — oregon their assemblage advisor — to spot should beryllium kept offline.
• Keep It Clean: Talking astir enactment oregon sharing explicit images online whitethorn dependable similar fun, but it tin pb to thing from embarrassment among friends to a predator’s “grooming” (online stalking). And successful the lawsuit of photos, it’s really illegal. If your kids are connected the receiving extremity of intersexual messages oregon images, the archetypal happening they should bash is archer you oregon different adult. Together you tin interaction the constabulary and/or study it to CyberTipline.com.
• Don’t Meet Online Friends Offline: The information is, there’s nary mode to beryllium definite that idiosyncratic your kid met online is truly who they accidental they are. And erstwhile they conscionable successful person, your kid tin beryllium successful existent real-world danger. So wherefore bash it? If you cognize your kids are going to bash it anyway, however, punctual them to ever bring friends on and fto you oregon different trusted big cognize wherever they’ll be.

“Los Alamos Public Schools, Los Alamos High School and Los Alamos Middle School instrumentality these matters precise seriously. Please study immoderate concerns you whitethorn person to schoolhouse officials.” –LAPS