To ask if we can be friends

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So DS is in his first year of school. He's my third child so I'm familiar with the school etc. He has a different teacher than his older siblings had in their first year.
Can I become friends with his teacher? We get along well, chat about a lot of things that aren't related to schooling/education.
I would wait till the school year is over to strike up a proper friendship.
Has anyone done this? Can you befriend your child's teacher?

Ideally not.
You shouldn't try and be facebook friends with them, it's unprofessional for them to agree to that, so don't ask; and I would imagine that pans out to general friendship as well.

YOu say that you would wait until the end of this year; but it would possibly be better to wait until he's left the school.

How would you go about that? i never see any of my childrens old teachers when they leave their year, even though its still the same school

I'm a primary teacher. IMO it would be unprofessional for me to become friends with a parent, male or female. This includes on social media.

Even when my own sons attended the school that I worked in, I did not socialise as a mum as I feel it's essential to maintain professional distance for everyone's sake.

As a teacher there have been plenty parents I've gotten on well with and would have been friendly with. However, I have never accepted friend requests from parents or made requests to them. (there are some parents I was already friends with or have worked with so have become fb friends with them). I wouldn't feel comfortable doing so either as there needs to be that professional relationship maintained, if not for the teacher and yourself, at least for your child.

Lots of parents and teachers are friends at the primary school my children used to go to. I became friends with the reception teacher when DS2 started in her class, although she had already taught DS1 2 yrs earlier. DS2 is now 17 and we are still friends.