2. A Teacher’s Personal Life …
Lines between a teacher’s private and public life are
blurred.
Added responsibility being a public figure.
Extra-curricular life of teachers can have
professional consequences.
3. Headline United Kingdom:
Disgrace of six drinking, pole-
dancing primary school
teachers who published the
pictures on Facebook
Parent found the photos
through one of the teacher’s
profiles that did not have
privacy settings engaged. The
parent printed five pictures
and shared the with parents.
Photo Source: http://mstknews.blogspot.com/2011/05/disgrace-of-six-drinking-pole-dancing.html
4. Georgia teacher,
Ashley Payne loses her job
for vacation photo posted on
Facebook
Did the Internet Kill Privacy?
CBS News Report
Photo Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-3445_162-7323148.html
5. High school teacher
fired for Facebook
comments
Said she was just
blowing off steam
ABC News Report
Photo Source: http://momentsofawareness.blogspot.com/2010/08/facebook-firing-
teacher-loses-job-after.html
6. Judge rules Patterson, NJ
teacher can be fired for
Facebook comments
‘students are future
criminals’ – posted to 333
friends, someone
forwarded to parents
New Jersey Newsroom
7. Five Best Practices
Stay up to date with safety and privacy
settings.
Consider who your ‘Friends’ are.
Utilize custom settings to create private
‘Friends’ lists.
Don’t post during work hours.
Be responsible digital citizens.
12. To Friend or Not to Friend
Students
Students (under age 13)
Former students
Parents
13. Things to Remember
Keep personal or school-related information out of posts
and your profile.
Regardless of privacy settings, assume that all of the
information you have shared on your social network is public
information.
Don’t blindly like or repost a link without looking carefully at
the content first.
Editor's Notes
United KingdomMay 2011Parent found through one of the teacher’s profiles that did not have privacy settings; printed five pictures and posted them throughout the neighborhoodOther photos show them flashing the knickers, downing cocktails, smoking
Ashley posted several pictures from her vacation on facebook including ones in which she was holding wine glasses and a beer mugPrincipal was told a parent called to complain. She was given a choice resign or be suspended.Amy resigned but continues to fight to get her job back
Called the residents of Cohasset “arrogant and snobby” and said that she is “so not looking forward to another year at Cohasset schools”Said her comment was referring to the political situation in the school, which she called very stressful and she said she thought she was only blowing off steam with friends in privateWhen she got sick wrote, “Now I remember why I stopped teaching kids. They are all germ bags.”
An administrative law judge has ruled that New jersey first-grade teacher Jennifer O’Brien should lose her tenured job because she wrote on Facebook that she was a “warden for future criminals”Posted to 333 friends, March 2011, it was FORWARDED and parents saw it
