Teachers Chided for Facebook Posts

For the last sentence, everybody: if you're going to post things happening Facebook, please have a olive-sized democratic sense.

Careless Metaphor

In Paterson, Inexperient New Jersey, a first-grade teacher has been suspended for posting a status update on her Facebook page that implied she felt like a warden overseeing future criminals. And by "tacit," I awful her status update said, "I feel care a warden overseeing future criminals," according to a district official.

Needless to say, parents of the teacher's students weren't too happy about their children being called "future criminals," and the instructor (whose name hasn't been free) was suspended with pay after a "momentous number" of parents complained.

This comment particularly strike a chord because the Paterson schoolhouse district has "long been one of New Tee shirt's to the highest degree troubled school systems," according to The Untried York Times.

School circuit board president Theodore Best said the teacher was suspended non for her indiscreet Facebook status update, but because "the incident created serious problems at the school that obstructed the functioning of the building." Best told Northwestern Jersey's The Record that "You lav't simply fire somebody for what they wear a Facebook page; but if that spills over and affects the classroom then you can deal action."

Establish and Tell

Meanwhile, over in Chicago, a computer lab instructor at Overton Elementary School has been reprimanded for notice photos of a 7-year-echt girlfriend on Facebook and playful her hairstyle.

According to The Chicago Tribune, the teacher posted deuce photos of the girl — a side shaft and a back-of-the-head stab — along with the line, "And y'entirely cerebration I was joking!" The girlfriend's hairstyle was special for picture day — braids with Jolly Ranchers tied to the ends, a hairstyle she'd seen and admired in a magazine (hey, 7-yr-olds are not known for their cutting sense of fashion).

The teacher's friends then joined in, with comments such as, "If you're going to make your baby look ridiculous, the least affair you hind end do is have them matching," and "I laughed thusly hard that my contact popped out."

The girl's mother was alerted to the issue when another parent — whose child was Facebook "friends" with the teacher — sent her an email with screenshots of the Page. The teacher then apologized to the mother and took down the page, though the Newmarket Public School district is still looking into the incident and says information technology "will warrant disciplinary action."

Patc it's reliable that both of these Facebook posts were probably non 100 percent dangerous, and were meant for the gain of entertaining the respective teachers' friends, that won't change how certain hoi polloi perceive them.

The moral of the chronicle? Father't post anything about your job, e'er, unless information technology's something that absolutely cannot be misconstrued. That's why I ever situatio things the like, "PCWorld is the best magazine ever," and "I love my editors."

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