If that teacher is female and hot, no problem.
Male? Fire him.

/double standard FTW

Special ed teacher, huh?

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I am a teacher on a few social networking sites. How hard is it to use a generic pic and set your profile to private?

Why are the people in power so afraid of sex?

I joined Facebook at a student's urging in the first place (as a lark). I didn't think anyone of my generation was on it. And they weren't at the time, but now they are. So I have students on my friend list (it's pretty much the only way a kid can contact me outside of school, so it can be useful for them. Every so often I get wall posts with "Miss! Is band cancelled tomorrow??").

Limited profile is my friend. But I have almost nothing questionable even on my full profile.

I can't say the same for many of my colleagues, however. One teacher's profile photo is of herself in a bikini. Another two staff members have "Super Walls" (or "Fun Walls" or whatever it is. I block them, so I really can't keep 'em straight) where their friends had posted pictures of naked men. And yes, they all have students added as friends.

Broadcastdave: I am a teacher on a few social networking sites. How hard is it to use a generic pic and set your profile to private?

Why should teachers have to do this when no one else does?

FuturePastNow: Broadcastdave: I am a teacher on a few social networking sites. How hard is it to use a generic pic and set your profile to private?

Why should teachers have to do this when no one else does?

Because most of modern American society thinks Teachers are Substitute Parents, they expect full line-toeing super-serios-biznes at all times.

No, you can't have a personal life
Not yours!

I locked down my profile when the conditions changed. I was cool with only .edu email addys being used to sign up. Never comfy enough to share my phone number, but as soon as it opened up to everybody with a wallet and teenage-girl like free time, I did some housecleaning and don't really visit.

To me, it's nothing more than a convenient contact method for former classmates.

Social networking is more of a drinking hobby to me.

/It saves the environment by using less energy!

FuturePastNow: Broadcastdave: I am a teacher on a few social networking sites. How hard is it to use a generic pic and set your profile to private?

Why should teachers have to do this when no one else does?

Exactly. Why are teachers held to a higher standard when nobody else is? Yes yes, some idiot will pull out the "they're a role model for THE CHILDRENS!". If so, then pay them what they're worth, and stop loading them with ridiculous requirements.

Ya gotta get the booze, sex, drugs and gay, gay porn into the classrooms so we can start desensitizing the kiddies early.
Oh, and don't forget about the ritual slaughter of cute bunnies.

FuturePastNow: Broadcastdave: I am a teacher on a few social networking sites. How hard is it to use a generic pic and set your profile to private?

Why should teachers have to do this when no one else does?

because a job as a teacher is a privilege and not a right?
it's kind of part of the job requirements.

/save the lame "it's certainly not a privilege here!" posts
//hung over

A teacher with a life outside of the classroom?

BURN THE WITCH!

This just in: Teachers are people too.

after-school counselor Kiley Boland, 21, had several swear words on her profile

OH THE HUMANITY! SWEAR WORDS!?!?!?!

I'm 27, super horny, and an A+++ in bed, so I'm really getting a kick ...

Doesn't pay to be human and have life these days. That's a firin

FuturePastNow: Why should teachers have to do this when no one else does?

I'm not a teacher, but I did santize my Facebook profile. Then again, I was looking for a job at the time :-).

Private profiles are your friend.

Dr.Knockboots:

If people can experience a reward without the permission of the power structure, their thinking is that much less limited to working within the system.

You mean, adults might have sex and enjoy it?

Oh no, think of the children.

/we also drink and do other stuff that's not for kids.
//so do you, you hypocritical bastards who call yourselves parents.
///that's how you got kids in the first place.

Leave work, strap mon the chastity belt, don the burka etc. go home, study lesson plans, grade tests and go to bed. Tomorrow, lather, rinse and repeat.

WTF? people need a friggen clue

Kindergarten teacher Meghan Buckley, 26, had a page with links to photos of herself drinking and having her bottom spanked by a friend.

Oh noes, won't someone think of the children?!?!

drewsky52: I'm 27, super horny, and an A+++ in bed, so I'm going to the gym in 26 minutes.

FuturePastNow: Broadcastdave: I am a teacher on a few social networking sites. How hard is it to use a generic pic and set your profile to private?

Why should teachers have to do this when no one else does?


Nobody has to do anything. However many employers will look to see if you have a profile on myspace or facebook and if you have pictures weed leaves and other nonsense and the other person applying for the job has a plain profile or no profile at all, they will probably go with the other person. Everyone is free to self disclose any information on the internet, but they shouldn't be surprised when someone sees it and passes judgement on them.

Kindergarten teacher Meghan Buckley, 26, had a page with links to photos of herself drinking and having her bottom spanked by a friend.

Pics or GTFO

FTA: Cathy Thompson, 25, a school psychologist intern, posted photos of her partying at Mardi Gras and stuffing bills in a male stripper's pants.

What happens in New Orleans is supposed to stay in New Orleans.

hyperflame: FuturePastNow: Broadcastdave: I am a teacher on a few social networking sites. How hard is it to use a generic pic and set your profile to private?

Why should teachers have to do this when no one else does?

Exactly. Why are teachers held to a higher standard when nobody else is? Yes yes, some idiot will pull out the "they're a role model for THE CHILDRENS!". If so, then pay them what they're worth, and stop loading them with ridiculous requirements.

I have a lot of respect for teachers, but they do need to be held to a higher standard than joe blow. How much respect are they going to get when their students are looking at the teachers' myspace pix, in which said teachers are wasted?

And teachers are being paid what they're worth. The Pareto Optimum FTW!

Pics or it didnt happen.

My porn name is Sutter Holmes!!

/got nothing

Blind_Io You mean, adults might have sex and enjoy it?

Oh no, think of the children.

/we also drink and do other stuff that's not for kids.
//so do you, you hypocritical bastards who call yourselves parents.
///that's how you got kids in the first place.

Yes... but only on Saturday night... with the lights off... and it was strictly a 'marital duty.'

/ now shhushhh .... saying anything more might let people think it's 'ok' to do ... you know ... that 'nasty' stuff...

My coach does fairly regular monitoring of the team's facebook profiles, so we have to keep it clear of pictures with alcohol and the like, even if we're over 21. The football team is actually barred from having accounts from their coach (well, under Carr they were. Not sure about Rich), which I found interesting.

I keep my profile pretty clean anyway, partly because I have a lot of my former students who joined when they let in High Schoolers and I felt weird about that for some reason. Besides, job recruiters are supposedly digging deeper and deeper at prospects, so couldn't hurt to keep it sanitary.

/nothing on social sites is private, ever. Always assume this.

This Victorian attitude is idiotic. "Curse words"? Oh, the humanity! It's not like kids don't know every curse word in the book already...and they're going to have sex and drink whether or not they see Mrs. Badcrumble from 3rd period English doing it on the internet...

Well, if they feel this way... then pay the teacher 24/7 instead of just during the day and school year. TEHN since they are "on the clock" they can dick-tate what they say and do at any time....

So glad I didn't become a teacher.

/I was offered a job in '01 (I was almost 21) teaching a specialty video game design primer course. When two uber-cute senior girls were added to the clan, I chickened out and bolted. FAIL

Ok, so who here is actually bothered by any of these things? Is it actually a problem to any of you for teachers to post this kinda stuff up on facebook?
I understand that one crazy parent could turn one of these pages into a liability issue somehow or whatever, but is there anyone here that is that brand of crazy? Anyone out there?

FTA: His page also lets people take quizzes with questions like "What's Your Secret Sexual Fantasy?"

So, in other words he added a quiz to his profile, which randomly presents 5 out of 2000 quizes, and it just happened to get a gem, instead of 'Whats your favourite fruit' or 'Whats your favourite color'? Youd think if they were going to get someone to write an article relevant to facebook, they'd be able to find a person who knows the slightest thing about it.
/journalistic ethics, who needs em?

People are idiots if they put compromising stuff about themselves online. They all have a good firing coming to them. Serves them right for being idiots.

Lesson: If you put anything about yourself online, your employer can see it, or a potential employer can see it and not hire you.

I don't use facebook. I don't get it. I have actual real friends in the real world and I also prefer to have a job and make money.

Ceteris Paribus says:

I have a lot of respect for teachers, but they do need to be held to a higher standard than joe blow. How much respect are they going to get when their students are looking at the teachers' myspace pix, in which said teachers are wasted?


Trust me students do not care if they see their teachers drunk. When I was in HS a couple of teachers went to the friday night football game drunk. Monday comes by and it was all over the school, none of the students thought "ZOMG THEY ARE BAD", instead we laughed it off and made fun of the teachers.



/I dont remember parents making a big deal out of it either
//Still funny to me when I think about my english teacher trying to walk up the bleachers drunk

In my new job in professional staffing I was informed that several companies now use, as a part of their screening process, a Google search. That was not a huge surprise.

What WAS a surprise was that the first 5 pages become a part of your permanent file. So even if your name isn't on the page that might be embarrassing, a link to something posted by someone else that uses your name and shows where you can be found could very well be in your file. And if someone in HR, or maybe a boss who doesn't like you, has a little free time...

And heaven help you if someone else has set up a page dedicated to trashing your reputation or one alleging to be yours.

Someone expects 21-30 yo women to behave? Who cares what their day job is?

Kindergarten teacher Meghan Buckley, 26, had a page with links to photos of herself drinking and having her bottom spanked by a friend.

something tells me these photos would highly relevant to my interests

Ceteris Paribus says: hyperflame: FuturePastNow: Broadcastdave: I am a teacher on a few social networking sites. How hard is it to use a generic pic and set your profile to private?

Why should teachers have to do this when no one else does?

Exactly. Why are teachers held to a higher standard when nobody else is? Yes yes, some idiot will pull out the "they're a role model for THE CHILDRENS!". If so, then pay them what they're worth, and stop loading them with ridiculous requirements.

I have a lot of respect for teachers, but they do need to be held to a higher standard than joe blow. How much respect are they going to get when their students are looking at the teachers' myspace pix, in which said teachers are wasted?

And teachers are being paid what they're worth. The Pareto Optimum FTW!

What teachers are being paid is insulting, and not nearly what they should be making. I think it's outrageous for you to claim otherwise. Maybe you're not a teacher so it doesn't affect you, you selfish selfish man, but teachers deserve more than thirty grand a year to assist in the development of the friggin' future. It's worth as much as doctor. There's a cultural stigma to teachers that I find reprehensible. They are not second class citizens. They do not get paid enough to be told how to live in their off hours, or be judged because they do not act like parents to your precious little snowflake.

Also, if you paid teachers 90,000 a year, you'd attract better teachers.

Also, the school system blows anyway. Nuke it and start over.

Also, no more principals or standardized testing.

The only thing about this that's foolish on the teachers part has nothing to do with them being teachers--if you're a professional, you shouldn't leave something that's incredibly easy to find that will put doubt as to your professionalism. That goes for lawyers and stock brokers too. In that regard, these teachers are kind of clown shoes.

Also, who here thinks whoever wrote this is a douche?

I just wanna know how on track I am here with how other people feel about this, personaly this totaly freaks me out. Although my facebook is littered with things a lot worse than this I doubt it will come back to get me. What worries me here is the simple fact that people are this farking nuts.

SharkTrager: In my new job in professional staffing I was informed that several companies now use, as a part of their screening process, a Google search. That was not a huge surprise.

What WAS a surprise was that the first 5 pages become a part of your permanent file. So even if your name isn't on the page that might be embarrassing, a link to something posted by someone else that uses your name and shows where you can be found could very well be in your file. And if someone in HR, or maybe a boss who doesn't like you, has a little free time...

And heaven help you if someone else has set up a page dedicated to trashing your reputation or one alleging to be yours.

That's why I love that my name is Google-proof.

John Kennedy

Seriously, they'd have to dig pretty deep before they find anything about me.

Sir Vanderhoot: The football team is actually barred from having accounts from their coach (well, under Carr they were. Not sure about Rich), which I found interesting.

Hehe, ever see that profile of Marquis "I'm a farklion" Slocum on Facebook I think it was? :)

Guy has to have an IQ of seven.

Woo hot teacher ... wait a minute, did you say "daughter"?

That sick sonofabiatch must pay!

Wow, a bunch of idiots here.

"Geez, teachers can't have a life? Teachers can't have sex?"

If you're incapable of comprehending the idea of having a life and having sex without posting pictures of either one on a PUBLIC WEBSITE then I think you should see a psychologist about your intimacy issues.

Or don't post it under your real name and occupation. Duh.

I don't have a problem with teachers drinking or smoking or swearing or spanking. I have a problem with the teacher who is stupid enough to broadcast these things to the world and expect no consequences. My sister told her 6th grade cheerleaders during tryouts that they had to delete their myspace page if they were going to be on her team because she "wanted only mature and respectable members." (She also didn't want pedos stalking them)

Lawyers, doctors and other professionals are also advised not to have these pages for all to see. There is something a bit unnerving about finding the myspace of the doctor that operated on you and seeing nothing but pictures of him high doing shots of tequila.

Does anyone have any dirt on this reporter chick. She seems to like slandering teachers for being human outside of their jobs, we need to find some dirt on this lady and turn the tables.

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I think I would like to have a 1 on 1 parent teacher conference with a few of these teachers.