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Social Media Community Participation Guidelines

Loomis Chaffee maintains several social media accounts, including accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. A directory of school-managed accounts is available on our website.

Many teams, dormitories, student organizations and clubs, and other groups also maintain Loomis-affiliated accounts on social media. The owners of those accounts are asked to follow these guidelines as well.

Social media provides a forum for sharing news and information about our school as well as a way for the school to connect and engage in dialogue and discussion with our larger community and with the public.

We believe in the open exchange of ideas. We invite open, frank, challenging, productive, and civil dialogue. We seek to make our social media channels a safe and inviting place for all those who participate in our channels.

To that end, we ask all those who post, respond, comment, or otherwise interact with our social media accounts to follow the set of guidelines below.

Those participating in Loomis Chaffee social media accounts:

  • Will seek to engage in civil dialogue. Differing opinions are welcome and those who disagree are invited to do so respectfully.
  • Will stay on topic and keep the discussion relevant to the post.
  • Will not post or share copyrighted materials or other intellectual property that are not your own.
  • Will not post anonymously.
  • Will not post or share content that contains malware, spyware, viruses or any content intended to damage or infect others’ electronic devices.
  • Will not post or share language or images that could be considered racist, sexist, homophobic, obscene, knowingly false, intentionally misleading, libelous, unlawful, or that are meant to incite or glorify violence.
  • Will not engage in what could be considered ad hominem attacks.
  • Will not engage in what could be considered unproductive calling out or singling out of individuals.
  • Will not share personally identifying information about others without their express permission.
  • Will not post content that violates any of the major school rules outlined in the Student Handbook.

The moderators of Loomis Chaffee-owned accounts reserve the right to hide or delete posts or comments who do not follow these guidelines. The moderators of Loomis Chaffee-owned accounts may occasionally block users who consistently violate these guidelines.

(updated July 2020)