How would you feel about this?

[KiKiKiKi123]

A teacher at my DD’s school came up as a suggested friend on FB. I looked at her profile. These are public posts. I’ll only upload the ones I could edit to hide identifying details but there are some that are MUCH worse. Her current profile picture is the #LEAVEHOME one. She has multiple posts about how this is all a ‘plandemic’ and Covid doesn’t exist. Makes me feel very uncomfortable that she has access to young impressionable minds. I saw her once at the shops and she wasn’t wearing a mask, I just assumed she was exempt. She is also VERY anti-vax and has posted about how dangerous the Covid vaccine is. Again, all public posts that anyone can see.

YANBU- this is dangerous and I would either talk to her or bring it to the school’s attention. Or at least tell her to change her privacy settings.

YABU- mind your own business.

A few more..

YANBU.

You must take screenshots and report it to the school ASAP, she is a major risk to the safety of the children.

I would def. bring it to the school’s attention.

YABU

You need to report this to the school. They will have a social media policy and I would also expect their reassurance that she a) keeps her views to herself whilst at school b) she strictly adheres to infection control guidelines whilst on school grounds regardless of her personal beliefs.

I would bring that to the school's attention as she should not be cropping up as a suggested friend to pupils let alone if she's spouting such crap.

At best it shows extremely poor judgement that she is posting this on a public forum without consideration to her job. I'd report it to school.

@Mylittlepony374

At best it shows extremely poor judgement that she is posting this on a public forum without consideration to her job. I'd report it to school.

My thoughts exactly. I wouldn't give a rat's ass about what she's thinking to herself as long as she abides by the law, wears a freaking mask and doesn't try to convince others how covid and the vaccine are a sham

This statement in particular really worries me! ‘It’s my duty to wake up others’ What is she saying to the kids?!

Please report this.

The woman is entitled to her own opinion. So long as she isn’t spouting any of this in class I would mind my own business. I do however think she is wrong and would be concerned about her intelligence and therefore ability to teach.

Definitely report it. Schools have strict social media policies for their staff.

Do you really need to keep publishing this sort of stuff?

I know I'm carping, but the initial excerpts have given enough of a flavour, and you have received some very good advice.

I don't think adding more examples does anything other than give an even wider platform to the posts you choose to re-publish

I’d report it. I have to say I’m surprised you could see her profile. I’m a teacher and we get battered over the head constantly about keeping our social media super private. I would imagine she will be in breach of the school’s social media policy. Plus she’s obviously crackers.

And to add insult to injury, she's used a shopkeeper's apostrophe...

Report her. Christ knows what shit she's filling the kids heads with & she won't be following the rules when they go back.

well just because shes a teacher and has these views does not mean that she influencing the children she teaching with them though . yes shes putting her views on facebook but im assuming that the kids arent friending her on there so how would they ever see them is what im wondering ? i know im in the minority here but this whole oh lets report her because shes got this stuff on her facebook page makes me cringe tbh , she may well wear a lanyard exemption at school as she wont wear a mask ,but the chances of her being able to air her views there to kids is incredibly small as she would know shed be in big trouble so its pretty sad she cant even have her own facebook page to say how she feels without being reported

I would send them to the head teacher and let her deal with it. Normally my view is their social media is their business but not in this case. I hope you've got identifying screenshots in case she sees this and deletes them.

Report it.

Even if you think she is correct and has a right to spout this unhinged nonsense, she is certainly in breach of school social media policies and is putting public health at risk.

You may be "entitled to your opinion" but you are not entitled to endanger others as a result of your opinion.

@OfTheNight on one of her posts she says she has made these posts public to reach a wider audience. I’m not too clued up on social media so I’m not too sure how the algorithms work but I’m guessing she came up as a suggested friend because she has looked me up at some point?

Normally I find social media policies invasive, but she’s readily admitting she breaches public health laws and then goes into a school with children. I would say something on that basis. She’s entitled to her views but she’s not entitled to pass covid on to families.

It's pretty generic stuff and I don't see the problem as long as she remains neutral at work and is following the rules. It's not, and shouldn't become, a police state.

I would definitely report it to the school. Heck, I would even report it to the Local Education Authority. As a PP said the phrase 'It's my duty to wake up others' is worrying. Even if she doesn't spout this stuff to children in school, she is hardly likely to ensure they adhere to guidelines if she doesn't believe that the virus exists. I would be telling the school I don't want this thick person near my child.

[quote KiKiKiKi123]@OfTheNight on one of her posts she says she has made these posts public to reach a wider audience. I’m not too clued up on social media so I’m not too sure how the algorithms work but I’m guessing she came up as a suggested friend because she has looked me up at some point?[/quote]
No, it doesn't work like that. It's either because you have mutual friends, or something else in common (i.e. location, workplace, interests). It's absolutely nothing to do with who clicks on your profile.

@LindaEllen Thanks for explaining. I had no idea