Should teachers be allowed to friend students on Facebook?
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18 comments:
No...this just opens the teacher up for all kinds of potential problems that could be used against her/him. Wiser to keep it totally about the classroom.
absolutely not. Just asking for trouble. Teachers and students should keep their distances so the teachers authority and respect will not be compromised. Plus someone somewhere will carry the relationship/friendship to far and someone will end up in jail.
no, period!
Should Judges and Attys be allowed to be friends outside of work?
Should Judges and Police Officers be allowed?...
Should Police Officers and Attorneys be allowed?...
Only if they want to sleep with them
Yes, I see no reason why they should not. My daughter-in-law teaches in a Community College, do you know she has to give the students her cell phone number along with an email address? I was dumbfounded when she told me that! CELL PHONE number no less. She also has an email for her children's teachers who are in 2nd and 7th grades. What is the difference. OMG, on Facebook anyone pretty much can see what you write. So they can exchange email addresses but not be on facebook. Maybe I am missing something here.
11:18 the difference is that in the case of teacher student, you're usually dealing with minors.
NO
11:39
That has nothing to do with it. The teachers are with minors all day behind closed doors.
no way , ho say , non amigo . etc.
They are with minors in school doing, hopefully, school related activities and that's where is should stop.
12:37, precisely the point I'm trying to make. Now read my original question(s) and tell me what you think?
If the people we trust with our children all day cannot be trusted with them "after school", then shouldn't the same apply to the groups I've mentioned?
It's about the "opportunity" for "temptation", isn't it?
If the people we trust with our children all day cannot be trusted with them "after school", then shouldn't the same apply to the groups I've mentioned?
It's about the "opportunity" for "temptation", isn't it?
August 3, 2011 12:55 PM
Another nut.
no never but IF the school system wants such "friendships" to develope then they should make a faculty website where students and teachers may interact with public comments only, no personal emails or messages possible.
I don't see an issue as long as the teachers have a professional profile for student interaction and a private one for themselves.
I concur with 3:24. Sort of a Jekyll and Hyde thing.
That way, the teacher could post things like homework assignments, etc on the professional site, and keep the private stuff separate.
One who communicates with another on Facebook is called a Facebook Friend. Teachers and students should not be friends. Simple as that, it would seem.
I teach my students that they should not share anything with me that they do not wish me to respond to or take action about. If I were foolish enough to "friend" them and they had pictures or stories of partying, drinking or sexual behaviors - then it would be my moral and legal responsibility to take action. I do not want that responsibility any more then I want my students in my personal life. Ugh! 12-18 hours a day, for 10 months a year is enough!
Personally, as a teacher I would not. However, students do try to friend you on facebook frequently--I just do not acknowledge it. I do not think that there needs to be a rule about it though. Teachers are adults and can make sensible decisions. If a teacher has a professional page (such as a business would) then I would see no problem with it as long as it was used for education (homework help, assignments, etc.).
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