Site Policies

Please find the following topics addressed below:

  1. Project Scope and Sequence
  2. Site Information
  3. Notice of Use of Information
  4. Submission Agreement
  5. Community Guidelines
    1. The Comment Section

Project Scope and Sequence

The website ‘Living Between the Hyphen: Making Space in the Space’ is a living, public anthology that seeks to collect pieces documenting students’ cultural discovery and expression. This site will be a vault for discussion, questions, and joyful celebration of the unique lives lived between cultures, countries, and continents. The anthology will showcase pieces collected from and for the Hackley School community. At the conclusion of the 2023-2024 school year, the collected pieces will be made public with comments disabled.

Why This Topic and Title?

Living in America comes with inherent amalgamation, whether that is in your family origin, languages spoken or understood, or what culture you claim. This is especially true for the children of immigrants and immigrant children. Questions such as, “Who am I?” “Is home the country my parents were born in, or is it the culture I grew up in?” “Do I want to connect with those cultures, languages, and peoples?” “What do I gain by learning more? Or lose by not engaging?” “Do I even care about how others see me or how I perceive myself?” are frequent though not exhaustive. Still, there is joy in discovering and creating one’s own idea of home, be it through merging cultures, choosing a side, or jettisoning expectations all together.

So, whether this is a burning topic for you or completely foreign, I hope this site will inspire deeper consideration for the cultures claimed by or for 1st/2nd and 1.5-generation immigrants.

Site Information

  1. The anthology ‘Living Between the Hyphen: Making Space in the Space’ (hereafter LBtH) is created by Abigail Offei-Addo, a ’21-’23 Hackley School Teaching Fellow (hereafter “the site host”). The site host owns sole rights to the website. The site host also monitors submissions and comments for age and content appropriateness. Any inquiries regarding the project or its public nature may be directed to the site host at livinghyphen@gmail.com. By submitting a piece of work and/or commenting on the site, the submitter (and parents/guardians) agrees to the public nature of this site. As stated previously, this anthology will be made public from June 2023 onward with commenting disabled.

Notice of Use of Information

  1. The site host collects the student submitter’s (hereafter “submitter”) first and last initials, grade, division, school email (for MS and US students), and ethnicity (optional) via a Google submission form. A submitter’s grade, division, and ethnic information are used to track site demographics.
  2. Initials, grade and/or division are used for content attribution; the submitter may select a preferred attribution method via the submission form.
  3. The submitter’s school email is collected for the sole purpose of verifying submission reception and/or informing the submitter of a rejected submission.
  4. Site visitors’ WordPress log-in information is collected by WordPress as part of their site analytics. This log-in information is also collected when visitors comment on posts.
  5. All other information shared via the comment section is voluntarily provided at the discretion of site visitors.
  6. Parents/guardians may review and have their child’s post (along with any attached comments) deleted at their own discretion. If such action is desired, the parent/guardian of said child may email livinghyphen@gmail.com with the post(s)’s title(s) and a request for removal listing the reasoning for said request.

Submission Agreement

  1. For Hackley parents/guardians of minors:
    • As a parent/guardian of the submitter, I have read the LBtH project scope and sequence, and I understand the purpose and intent of said project. I understand that the rights to the LBtH anthology and domain are owned solely by the site host and not by Hackley School. By I and/or my child submitting to this site, I hereby give my permission for my child to access and have their work displayed as part of a public, online anthology that will be viewable by others outside the Hackley community after the end of the 2022-2023 school year. This permission extends only to sharing through the LBtH site and not to the publication of my child’s work. I consent to the site host’s community and submission guidelines. Although the site, comments, and submitted contents are constantly monitored by the site host, I realize that it is impossible for the site host to restrict access to all controversial matter. Therefore, I will not hold the site host responsible for content read on the site by my child. I hereby give permission for my child to use the LBtW site (based on language from the Hackley Student Handbook).
  2. For Hackley submitters:
    • As a submitter to the LBtH anthology, I understand that my work is my own, but will be part of a public, online anthology. I have received my parent(s)’s/guardian(s)’s consent to be part of this project. I also acknowledge that the work I am submitting is my own, and I have not taken another person’s original idea.

Community Guidelines

As stated in the project scope and sequence, the LBtH anthology is designed to be a “vault for discussions, questions, and joyful celebrations of the unique lives lived between cultures, countries, and continents.” As such, the stories and questions shared will stem from personal experiences and wonderings. In order to maintain a thoughtful and kind community space, submitters, commenters, and viewers are asked to be mindful of their interactions and behaviors on this site.

Guidelines and Reminders:

  1. The LBtH site is for the entire K-12 community. This is a unique opportunity to learn from and with other divisions! Please keep the varied ages of commenters and readers in mind as you interact with and submit to the site.
  2. Be curious and empathetic commenters and submitters!
  3. Use the “I” perspective when responding to others’ ideas and questions
  4. Posts are public. Do not use submissions or comments as an excuse to out peers, discuss other’s personal details, or to settle private arguments.
  5. The site host reserves the right to screen posts and comments before publication.
  6. Violators of the community guidelines will be cautioned and, if deemed necessary, prohibited from accessing the site.

Any questions or concerns regarding these guidelines or community behaviors may be directed to the site host at livinghyphen@gmail.com.

The Comment Section

  1. The comment section is a place to ask and respond to questions, furthering conversation. Therefore, swearing, bullying, and inappropriate language and/or behavior of any kind will not be tolerated. All comments will be reviewed before they are published on the website. This is to ensure kind, community centered conversation and to filter out inappropriate and/or demeaning language. If pertinent to the conversation, links to outside sites (i.e., YouTube, The New York Times, Twitter, etc.) are allowed, though they will also be subject to monitoring.