[Teachldsseminary] emailing students

[MomSandee at aol.com]

Many of the things you shared could more appropriately be e-mailed to  
parents and the parents encouraged to use these resources to enrich  
their family scripture study and family home evenings. I think one of  
the lesser dangers of e-mailing students is that while of course we  
want to build good relationships with them we do not want to "draw  
them unto ourselves..." but rather strengthen family bonds and draw  
them to the scriptures and the Lord.

Sandee
On Jul 26, 2008, at 11:23 AM, tassmus at comcast.net wrote:

> Another thing to consider and look into is the new church policy  
> that no adult teacher is to email to a child under the age of  
> 18........
>
> This new directive was shared at our last Seminary training meeting.  
> It was a difficult one for me as I used email all last year in my  
> teaching and building of relationships with my students. I had  
> emailed assignments, video clips, things of interest in the news,  
> "good luck" on your test notes, etc. etc. etc.
>
> I feel my correspondence with my students through email last year  
> was one of the greatest successes I had in building a great  
> foundation and also great follow-up to lessons.
>
> I will miss this availability this year, but feel it necessary to be  
> obedient to the directive. It was obviously given to us for a  
> reason. If you haven't heard about it, you may want to look into it.
>
> ~Tracy
> Spokane, WA
>