To expect teachers not to comment on their pupils performance on facebook?

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I am a bit actually. A friend who is a teacher commented on facebook (yes facebook again)how well her pupils had done in their exams but a friend of hers then added the following "my lot are a bunch of fannies I didn't have high hopes and they performed exactly as expected"

I could chose to ignore this but FFS with a teacher prepared to make comments like this in a pretty public place (with friends of friends able to read) what chance do the kids have? I don't even know which school it relates to but do I just ignore or make a polite addition to the thread along the lines of "thanks my kids attend your school" Have even thought about highlighting to school head. IMO as a professional eg. teacher, nurse, police etc you need to be very very careful what you post on the internet. AIBU here?

Ah.

Totally out of order.

But a bit funny.

Teacher has been very, very stupid.

Yanbu- it's very unprofessional, And pretty awful for the kids too

YANBU, you'd wouldn't be impressed if your doctor started writing about your medical history on FB.

I am not a teacher but am always v careful about what I say about work as am friends with my boss (possibly stupidly)

Unprofessional but I wouldn't report it to the headteacher unless it was my own child's teacher.

Unproffesional. They might get reported by someone anyway.

definitely report it how horrible! :(

Report it to whom? Op doesn't know where she teaches, fgs. It could be anywhere in the world!

omg. Worrying. Copy and print, "just in case" you need it? If you decide not to do anything or mention it anywhere just now, then you have it should you change your mind?

oh I see. oops.
still I'd hope someone affected by the post would report it... it's just so mean! and careless.

YANBU very unprofessional.

write something along the lines of

'well i always thought you were a fuckwit, in your last comment you performed exactly as expected'

lol VT

Unprofessional but quite amusingly put and possibly true!

If there are neither pupils nor parents of the teacher's pupils listed amongst the FB 'friends' I don't see its a major issue. As has been said, the school isn't mentioned.

In the OP's case, she knows neither school nor the offending teacher and so clearly her DC aren't affected. Seems like a lot of fuss over very little to me.

Is her FB page private?

That's absolutely appalling. The FB post is bad enough, but would any of you want someone teaching your children if they thought they were all stupid? Self-fulfilling prophecy is extremely powerful and if you spend day in day out with someone who thinks you're thick, even if they don't say it to you, you will end up proving them right.

As you rightly say my kids aren't affected but he doesn't know that. I am reading his post as a 'friend of a friend' and could easily work out or find out the school. Maybe folks should think about who has access prior to posting!

It may well be true and the kids may well be fannies but we are always hearing about poor schools in poor areas (which I suspect this to be) and the need to motivate youngsters to achieve etc wonder if he gives a shit?

I was about to say yabu until I read the post properly! I have a friend who is a teacher and she regularly posts things saying how proud she is of her pupils when they get good results. I would write a sarcastic reply tbh, something along the lines of lucky kids having a teacher who believes in them. I had teachers like that at school and failed spectacularly in those subjects. Theres no incentive to even try if the teacher thinks you're stupid. Yanbu at all its totally unprofessional

That is out of order. Most schools now have an e safety policy and it would be considered a disciplinary matter.

I can't believe how many of my fellow teachers are so dim about this sort of thing.
That's what extreme privacy settings are for surely?
I'm careful about any negative,informal opinions I have, the cat is bored stiff.

Agree, goblin. In fact, the stupidity of said teacher would worry me more than their low expectations

This is how teachers end up in disciplinary hearings. Take it from me, I clerk the hearings. The last two I've been involved in featured Facebook. If you're kind you'll contact her and ask how much she values her career. If you don't feel kind you will complain to the Headteacher.

I'm a teacher. I have a Facebook account. Wouldn't say something like that on there. If I have complaints about my students, I tell my husband.

i think it's very unprofessional and as OP says, he doesn't know who might be reading it and might recognise that he is talking about tehir son or daughter. i would have to write a comment tbh. how awful if one of his pupils read that. where is the encouragement that these children should be getting?

Very unprofessional, as other posters have said. I have a self-imposed rule that I will never write about my work on FB, because these things have a way of spreading and reaching the wrong ears. What sounds to me like a small moan about a project will feel to the client like I'm not interested in his job! And it's even worse when it's a teacher writing about her students, it sounds like she couldn't be bothered about their prospects (even if the truth is that she worked here socks off all year for them!)