Cross Posted at the TechLearning blog
Our district uses its front page to post success stories from our 40 schools. These range from academic achievements to athletic accomplishments of school teams. Schools post the stories to their own Website and submit them to me to post to the district page where generally there is more traffic. This one was sent to me earlier in the week.
Tanner Spencer from Craik, SK, attended team Canada's World Junior top 35 camp in Orlando, Florida from October 5th to October 15th. Tanner is the youngest Saskatchewan player ever chosen to go. The majority of the team was from BC, Ontario, and Quebec. One player was chosen from the Maritimes, one from Manitoba, one from Saskatchewan and two from Alberta. Tanner started pitching the first game in Orlando, started the fourth game and closed the last game. He gave up no earned runs on six innings pitched. Congratulations Tanner.
As soon as I read it I realize they had violated our district policy which states we will never publish a photo of a student with a full name. I also realized in that moment how absurd that policy is.
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