Teachers on Facebook and night out

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I’ve name changed for this, my friend was showing me photos of her children’s SLT (Dep Heads, other teachers) out on a night out in a City. She’s friends with one of the Teachers on Facebook.

There are photos of them enjoying a night out, doing shots etc and this Teacher is friends with a number of parents on Facebook.

AIBU to think it’s probably not appropriate to share these sort of photos on Facebook?

It is titled like a pre back to work night out with a number of parents commenting things like ‘are you ready?’.

Im not saying don’t go out but not sure how appropriate it is for teachers to be sharing like this on Facebook.

Most people I know who are teachers or started teacher training made their facebooks private, deleted photos of themselves drunk on uni nights out, or changed their name on Facebook so it was harder to find them.

I would think it weird to be friends with your child’s teacher on Facebook (unless previously friends prior to them teaching the child).

Same with when people add their uni lecturers (means it’s pretty obvious you didn’t go to that class because you were hungover off your night out and not because you are genuinely sick like you claim to be!)

The point for the millionth time is she is NOT friends with parents (although she should be allowed to be friends with whoever she wants as long as the kids are treated fairly).

OPs FRIEND was friends with the teacher NOT OP - are you says teachers cant be friends with anyone in case that person knows a parent and is chatty? utterly ridiculous.

There have already been teacher bashing threads this term. One was about seating plans, the other was about a teacher spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories.

I think it’s fine. Can’t get excited about teachers enjoying themselves. However, a teacher family member of mine has got into arguments with members of the public on local community Facebook pages. I think that this is very foolish of the family member. The same person (also on Facebook page) blamed the obesity crisis on lack of food tec classes in school. This person is
morbidly obese despite having a degree in food and nutrition science. They made themselves look really stupid and not one of their friends “liked” the post. I am worried that they are lining themselves up to be got rid of if there are redundancies over the next year due to the cost of living crisis.

My teachers used to go to bars after school and do shots with pupils. Now that was inappropriate! Definitely think you are over reacting to them having a life and posting on Facebook!

Who are these 100 people voting this OP as reasonable?! 😂

Guess what, teachers are real people 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

I can have too many cocktails at the weekend with my friends AND still be a fantastic teacher. Which I do and which I am. Get a grip.

Unfortunately whilst in the public eye, you cannot do what you like.

I often hear people make comments about other rival business owners' behavior, it happens, but I like to avoid it. It's sensible, and company policies across the private and public sectors make note of social media and personal behavior in the contracts.

I must be allowed. Are you 2?

If you have any teacher friends on Facebook you’ll notice they often call themselves Sarah Louise or something like that - no surname. Failing to keep your private life private is a disciplinary offence.
I am have 18 friends on FB who are teachers. 3 of them use an abbreviated version of their name, the others (including the two who are headteachers) use their normal full name.

It would be interesting to know if everyone shown in the pictures had given permission for them to be put on, knowing school parents would see them.

No they’re not. That’s nonsense. Provided they’re not doing anything illegal or bringing their organisation into disrepute they can post what they like. Organisations can’t police what people do in their personal lives.

I’ve seen teachers in our local pub when I’ve been out with my school mum friends a few times, always felt a bit sorry for them seeing us to be honest!

It's all completely ridiculous. I can see situations where it could be a problem, for example if someone was being racist, sexist, violent or breaking the law. But going for a night out? I'd much rather my doctor/solicitor/child's teacher was able to have a social life then be stuck seeing patients/clients/children all the time. It wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

We’re talking pictures off a night out not pictures rampant sex and drug taking

Just realised op and friends reason for stalking the teacher was that they're thinking of going to the bar the teacher was in themselves.
For SHAME op! You are parents! What level of parental responsibility is it to be going our to a bar when you have children, what will people think!!

If the teacher wanted to.post a picture of herself on Facebook enjoying a night out, fair enough.
But there may have been other teachers in the group who prefer not to be shown drinking on Facebook. Not because there's anything wrong with it, but because some parents and pupils can be a pita with this kind of thing.
If she asked them if it was ok to post and explained one of her friends was also a parent fair enough.
If she didn't I think she was being unfair.
And your friend should have more sense than to be showing the picture around.

Absolutely none of your business.

What a group of consenting adults get up to in their free time, with their own money, is entirely up to them.

I’m a teacher. I don’t tend to post photos of nights out on Facebook but sometimes other friends will post photos and tag me in them. I don’t see it as a problem, I don’t have any parents from the school as friends and actually to do so would go against our social media policy. But I suppose there is always a possibility of being tagged in a photo with someone else who does have a prentice as a friend meaning they could see it, but to be honest I don’t think it’s a huge deal. Going on a night out isn’t illegal or massively inappropriate and teachers are allowed to have a life outside of work.

And that's fine. Presumably you would have said 'post away'. But that doesn't mean everyone in the group would feel the same. If they were all asked and they did then that's OK.

I’m a teacher and don’t have parents on my facebook. However despite this I have been caught out.

when I was an NQT I went out drinking, photos went on fb of me with shots etc, nothing too incriminating and certainly nothing illegal but still not what I’d want my class or their parents seeing me doing! Turns out one of the friends I was out with worked with a parent from my class 😳 so the parent saw them that way, and commented on them! I was mortified! But I figured even if I wasn’t on Facebook myself it still could have happened, so decided I’d done nothing wrong and moved on.

Unless they were all pictured half naked in a strip club with lines of coke on the tables you are bvvvu.

Teacher shouldn't be friends with parents on Facebook

It wouldn't bother me at all. Going back years ago I used to go clubbing when I was a nursery nurse and one of the parents was manager at one of the nightclubs. Never caused an issue, she used to come and chat to me.
It's not quite the same thing but why would you care your child's teacher had a night out?
I work in another nursery now and we're not allowed to say where we work on fb but are absolutely allowed to post pictures of us out for a night.

It always amazes me how black and white some people see the world in.

Nope, as long as they’re doing legal things, I think they’ve got a right to do it and post it online if they want! My kids teachers and teaching assistants are phenomenal at their jobs, I don’t give a rats what they do in their personal time!

I hate being tagged, that's why I'm notified, then I'll vet the tag. I have rejected quite a few.