A private religious girls’ school has sent its students a message: since you didn’t delete your Facebook account, you’ll have to pay the price: $100, to be exact.
Brooklyn’s Beis Rivkah High School, a private Jewish school, has a long-standing ban on using the social networking service. The reason? Modesty.
Rabbi Benzion Stock, the school’s head administrator, told the Daily News that Facebook is “not a modest thing for a Jewish girl — or man or woman…to be on.”
He added that “there is a lack of privacy and dignity” that comes from using the service.
School officials noticed more and more students have been openly flaunting the ban. So at the beginning of this school year, each of its students was required to sign a contract promising to delete their accounts.
Those who didn’t comply were easy to find: last week, administrators simply searched for their students’ names, and found 33 active accounts. Each of them was fined $100, which they’ll receive back when they finish this school year.
Regardless of how successful the ban proves to be, the school is not well-liked on Facebook.
Though a search reveals multiple users who went to Beis Rivkah, the school’s Facebook page only has a single like.
Photo by The Jewish Agency for Israel
