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I have several friends who are teachers. Some are friends with their students on Facebook. I think it is okay for a college professor whose students are legal adults, but I think this could lead to nothing but trouble for a high school teacher. What do you think?
| Unsure | 16 | |
| No they shouldn't be facebook friends | 61 | |
| Yes, it is fine if they are facebook friends | 53 |
This is something I always found a little weird, and not professional.
In high school some of the younger male teachers(27/28) were friends with some of their female students over facebook, and I always thought that was kinda weird. Crossing the line. At one time I thought they might've had something going on, because they'd exchange cell phone numbers too.
If teachers add some of their students as friends but not others, wouldn't that be a case of favoritism? And I'd imagine that not all students would want to add their teacher anyway. So I think it would be better not to go there at all.
As long as they don't forget that they have a teacher as a friend and Facebook and don't post comments about their school life this shouldn't matter too much
Put it this way, if I were a teacher I'd want the student to be the one adding me, then I accept the invite. Would seem weird the other way round.
I really don't give a crap though, do what they want I guess. =P
no...they shouldnt,but im still gonna accept my teachers friend request,that bitch
Why are people so afraid of adults communicating with adolecents outside the structure of school. Does society no longer value mentors? Yes, there are bad people out there. But if you fear that every interaction will turn bad, you may just get your wish.
It's not even just that though. A teacher's friend could tag him in a photo where he is drinking, smoking, etc and this could lead to trouble if the student's parents have a problem with it. The same goes with a teacher sharing his/her political, religious, etc views on facebook.
i think you've gone so far left that you've started going right. it doesn't really matter if the parents are offended by what a teacher does on their own time. the parents have the right to restrict or monitor their child's internet use, and that's it. if the teacher lives in some small town where he would get fired for something like that then he should use discretion posting, or better yet move to a town where people don't start mobs wielding pitchforks and torches...
It worries me a little as there were 3 girls from my school who married our teachers. Too strange for me, I only went there to learn, I never looked at teachers that way.
Sounds fine to me. Unless one of you does something inappropriate, I doubt that anyobe would get in trouble.
It depends on why they're friends.
If it's being used professionally then that may be OK.
and by "professionally" i mean
- open to all students, not just some "favorites"
- open to parents
- ONLY used to post things like homework assignments (i.e. Monday 12 - read Starship Troopers chapter 1, due by monday 18) or a schedule of topics / class curriculum
and normally I'm against the notion of letting your boss / company have access to your FB but ... for something like this, i think the account should be a "teacher account" (not the teacher's personal one) with access granted to the school for oversight.
now if the teacher is using a personal FB to play games and chat / socialize with the students, then it gets murky fast. and in some cases that could even hurt their careers
I think it's fine. I mean, my entire high school was pretty much fully interconnected via Facebook, including the teachers.
I think its great, I was friends with several of my teachers growing up. one of them is on my Facebook.
They are the teacher, and shouldn't be in students' private information. That's for the parents and the student to deal with, unless it is at school and something there is affecting the student's learning or something. Nonetheless, they should not be overseeing the student's private, personal information such as a relationship. Also kids like to talk about how their teachers are, in ways that aren't too nice, and the student could then get into trouble over something on Facebook. Parents and teachers, sure, why not. Students...not so much.
I am- because some of our teachers have close relations with students, and most of us are college students, anyways. There are students that talk to old teachers
I think it is illegal or heavily frowned upon. I do know that if a student or teacher says anything about the other, it can be held against them.