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CASD Social Media

The Catasauqua Area School District operates multiple social media accounts to make district and building level announcements, post job opportunities, and to share the achievements of our students and staff. 

All District-owned social media accounts shall display the official name and logo and/or mascot of the District or a school. Official CASD managed social media accounts are listed below.

District Operated Facebook Pages:

The District encourages community members to respond to posts and share comments that are constructive and courteous toward the school community. Statements and opinions expressed by visitors to the account do not reflect the opinions of the District. Questions regarding information should be directed to the building principal or to the Superintendent’s office for district-wide information. The District shall review comments and may remove comments which:

  1. Are profane, vulgar, harmful to minors or obscene, in accordance with Board policy.
  2. Contain threats or contain personal attacks on individuals in the school community.
  3. Promote, suggest or encourage illegal activity or incite violence.
  4. Promote or endorse commercial products, services or businesses.
  5. Contain confidential information.
  6. Contain false or libelous statements.
  7. Contain language that causes a disruption to the school environment or operations.
  8. Contain hate speech directed at a protected class of individuals, in accordance with Board policy on discrimination and harassment.
  9. Are discriminatory or harassing or contain comments or imagery that attack or mock an individual due to his/her real or perceived race, color, national origin/ethnicity, age, creed, disability/handicap, sex (including discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity), marital status, family status, religion, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification.
  10. Are spamming in nature (i.e., same comment posted repeatedly).
  11. Contain links to external websites.

"District-owned social media account” shall mean a social media account, regardless of platform, that is approved by the Board and operated by a designated District employee(s), and is designed to further the educational mission of the District by providing information to the school community and general public.

The School District may delete certain of its social media posts, in their entirety and including all comments, at the discretion of the District’s administration. The District has no obligation to maintain its social media posts in perpetuity and their temporary presence on the internet is not a warranty of their future presence.

For more detailed information, please review Policy 824: Acceptable Use of Technology Resources, Electronic Communications, and Information Systems