This is taking a bit far, aren't teacher allowed to have any innocent fun outside school

[pigletmania]

I am [shocked] that this is a story tbh, just a group of ladies having fun on a hen night in their own time, there are no children or animals involved, and nobody is having sex in the photos so what! The parents reaction is too strong, as long as the teachers teach their children well so what! So they sit at home and have no fun then! Don't tell me that they have never had any fun themselves! So teachers should sit at home watching Embarassing Bodies on a Friday and Sat night then, to have fun and laughs with their mates would be , really the mentality of some peopl.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389292/Disgrace-drinking-pole-dancing-primary-school-teachers-published-pictures-Facebook.html

[mum765]

To me people's private lives are exactly that - private. What they do in their spare time has no bearing on what they do in their job. Same with politicians, footballers and anyone else. As long as they're doing their jobs well, the parent has no right to complain. It's none of her business.

[Birdsgottafly]

They will want it to die down so won't take action. They have been careless and they knew the possible penalty but using words such as immoral are going to far.

[ivykaty44]

I hope these teachers do take legal action against this woman that has taken photos that do not belong to her and then reproduced them and distributed the photos through peoples letter boxes.

[bulby]

Another point is that people are saying things like 'they were irresponsible'. In fairness it is probably only the person who took the photos who posted them and who is to say from the article that it was even a teacher. Apart from the posting on an insecure site, which was daft, I am at a loss to see why this is a story at all.... Unless the headline had been 'mad stalker parent annoys neighbours with crazy vendetta'.

[bulby]

Ha ha I meant 'unsecured' not 'insecure'.

[basingstoke]

Not having the security settings on Facebook. We are strongly discouraged from using Facebook et al at all in fact, although many teachers do. But not without security.

[Feenie]

That amazes me - what business is it of anyone's what your photo security settings are?

[ivykaty44]

We still live in a free country and if someone else came along and discouraged me from having a facebook page of my own then i would explain in a civil manner where they can go until such a time as we have a police state, we do not have to comply with our employers demands outside of work or in work if they are against our own rights of freedom regardless of our occupation

[aldiwhore]

Our head has requested that all teachers be very careful as to who can see their FB profiles and that any parents and teachers who are friends respect each other's privacy, and be descreet about life away from school.

It works well and has avoided any incidents... but we still have some outrageous night's out, we're adults. We simply don't tag/publish any photos from these nights out.

[MackerelOfFact]

Ridiculous. At what point do school staff cease being 'pillars of the community'? Part-time teachers? Teaching assistants? Dinner ladies? Joyce in accounts? Piano tutor? Trainee swimming teacher? Where would you draw the line?

I can't see on any level how these photographs are shocking. If they'd been pictured fellating effigies of parents or urinating on classroom displays or something, yeah ok. That crosses a line, it's disrespectful and goes against the trust parents and pupils put in their teachers. But dancing on a hen do? Erm.

[ivykaty44]

aldiwhore - but why shouldn't you publish the photographs if you want - we live in a free country and not a country where the law forbids drinking alcohol or hen night events and photography being allowed - yet you are cowtailing to this as if it is wrong - is it wrong how you are behaving and you need to hide your actions?

What if one of your outrageous nights out was mixed in someone else's photography and these photos appeared on facebook unknown to you - you may not even belong to the social network yourself and yet you could be tagged and published - why in anyway would that then be wrong

[CantThinkOfDecentNameChange]

NEVER tag photos..that's how they get out of your control. I have seen so many whole albums of pics belonging non FB-friends, just because they have tagged one picture with a mutual FB friend in. Dangerous - easily get into the wrong hands.

[fairydoll]

I don't know what legal action they could take .They have put the photos in the public domain.You can download Photos that the privacy settings allow you to.

[Feenie]

Yes, but surely you can't write 'scum' on them and post them through people's doors, public or not?

[ivykaty44]

fairydoll - but you are not allowed to reproduce any photographs that don't belong to you and then use them regardless of whether they are in the public domain or private regardless of whether you have the tec knowledge to download them you have still acted illegally, ( you reproduce a bbc photogrpahs and use it and you will find yourself in legal hot water just because it is on the bbc website and in the public domain doesn't mean you can reproduce, same for other companies or individuals and when you first sign onto facebook you sign about photographs) this woman reproduced the photos and that is what she can be legally challenged with and sued by the person that did take the photo - it doesn't need to have copyright stamped on it, or just because its on a public social network doesn't mean copyright doesn't matter - it does and the law is there to protect photographers. Even if the photographer is dead then the copyright will pass to next of kin.

[fairydoll]

so how come you can 'share' or download anyones photo on fb if it's illegal?

[HaughtyChuckle]

Oh I saw this before

what a loon, arent teachers allowed to have lives, it wasnt like they went to school to teach in skimpy army uniforms.

I'm just agahst and why they felt they had the right to post it through people letter boxes etc.

[skybluepearl]

they look like a nice group of young women having some fun. they posted thier own photos on thier own facebook accounts just like lots of other people do. i think the woman who photocopied and put them through peoples doors was insaine and obsessive. she obiously has some other axe to grind that we don't know about as she clearly over reacted.

[ivykaty44]

you can tape pop songs from the radio, it is still illegal though. There are a lot of things you can do but it doesn't mean it is legal to do them and ignorance is not acceptable in the eyes of the law as an excuse either.

Taking a photographers work and then reproducing it without permission is I suppose like stealing soemthing that doesn't belong to you and then using it -it doesn't matter whether you make money from it or not it is still illegal. It doesn't matter whether the photgrapher is a proffessional or not either, it does protect proffessionals from having their work stolen and used when they are trying to make a living - but it also protects others from the theft of their photos.