AMARILLO, TEXAS -- A few weeks ago, we brought you the story of Claude ISD using Facebook to keep students and parents involved. But should individual teachers be allowed to be friends with their students on that social networking site? It's the focus of part three of our five-part series on education.

Is it overstepping boundaries if a teacher becomes friends with a student on Facebook? Or are they just looking out for the student's best interest? We asked you those questions on our Facebook page and there was an over whelming response. William posted, "I'm a parent and I think it's a bad idea. There needs to be some boundaries set but we don't need laws for this, just common sense."

Patty posted," Would a teacher be friends with their students outside of school? Probably not. So being friends on Facebook, to me, would be the same as socializing with the students outside of school. Not appropriate." Jamie said, "As a teacher of 8th graders I say no! It sends a mixed message. Teachers are not friends! We are the adults who are supposed to lead them, educate them and show them appropriate boundaries. I adore my students.... They can e-mail me through the AISD system any time and I will respond."

That's exactly what the Amarillo Education Association says to do. Use the programs provided by the district.  "We would recommend having them set up something through the district, where parents, it's password protected, that way we know for sure that only our parents could get into it and be able to view content information directly related to their children and not something that someone else controls third party, not knowing who else can view it and get it into it," said Keith Creager, the President of the Amarillo Education Association. The AEA is a local affiliate of the Texas State Teachers Association and the National Education Association.

An ABC news poll shows about 13. 6 million people ages 13-17 are active on Facebook in the U.S. every month. Creager said those internet connection are just not compatible with a school environment.  "If something is said on Facebook or outside socialization and it carries back over to effect the school environment and I don't want to see something happen to the children or to the parents or the teachers to interrupt that relationship at school," said Creager.

It's a relationship that he said should stay professional and drift to online social networking. "Kids should be friends with kids, parents should be friends with actual parents and their friends, part of it, and they keep the relationship with the teachers and the teachers as a school relationship and not one on Facebook or outside socializing," continued Creager.

But others posted as long as it's just for school and parents are involved it should be okay. Terri responded, "As long as it is in an academic styled Facebook page and it sticks to school related questions and answers and doesn't overstep into personal conversation I think its ok."

Melissa posted, "My child has one teacher who has utilized Facebook to interact with the kids through their class, such as assignments, blogs, help, etc. Never once have I questioned her motives."

But Melissa continued saying as a parent, she has her kids user-names and passwords to those accounts. When it comes to AISD policy for teachers and students on Facebook, Creager said as far as he knows, there's isn't one.