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What is posted online stays online. Like, forever. Credit: Getty Images
That especially applies to Facebook.
Got that, all you little future criminals? Oops. Maybe "little criminals" is a little too harsh. Any way that last statement can be withdrawn? No?
Rule No. 2, class: What is posted online stays online. It's toothpaste out of the tube. You can't take it back.
These are harsh rules to learn, and, The New York Times reports, a first-grade teacher in Paterson, N.J. is learning them the hard way. Despite all the warnings people receive about watching what they post online, she allegedly just had to go and call her students "future criminals" and herself their "warden" on her Facebook page.
The Times reports the teacher from P.S. 21 in Paterson, who has not been publicly named, is on administrative leave.
She obviously didn't read about her colleague in Chicago who snapped a picture of a 7-year-old student and posted it on Facebook with mocking comments.
Then, The Times reports, there was the high school English teacher in Doylestown, Pa., who was suspended after she called students "disengaged, lazy whiners" on her blog.
People in New Jersey are not amused by this latest incident.
Irene Sterling, president of the Paterson Education Fund, a nonprofit group that supports local schools, tells The Times the teacher's Facebook page was open to everyone.
"It's horrible," she tells the newspaper. "And unfortunately, I don't think she's the only teacher in Paterson who thinks that way."
Paterson Board of Education president Thomas Best tells The Times that's definitely true.
"I've heard comments like this before," he tells the newspaper. "It's not on Facebook, but a lot of times the kids are referred to as 'animals.' "
Not that he approves of such talk. He tells The Times such comments are "unacceptable."
The teacher's lawyer suggests there might be a free speech issue involved.
"My feeling is that if you're concerned about children, you're concerned about what goes on in the classroom, not about policing your employee's private comments to others," Nancy Oxfeld tells The Times.
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4-06-2011 @ 3:26PM
dougalcandy said...Maybe I just don't understand. I am in education, and I have a Facebook page. Unless these teachers are "friends" with their students or their parents, how are these things making headline news? It seems that not only should these people be more discrimininating about what they say, they should also be mindful of who their "Facebook Friends" are. For me, only real friends, not acquaintances are allowed to even view my profile picture!
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4-06-2011 @ 3:56PM
coolinseattle said...it is a sad but true statement and if any parent has spent time in there childs class you can see the kids who have little or no respect for class conduct, Teachers lock down your facebook page and Parents at some point you need to be a parent to you little angle and not just a kewl friend.
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