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.

What? Let them live their lives. They don’t need to keep up appearances that they’re monks just because they teach your children.

I am a teacher and have lead a large department for many years.

We manage to have plenty of departmental nights out without plastering it on Facebook.

How am I hypocritical?

If you'd seen said teachers on a night out, would you have told them they were being unprofessional? Genuinely curious.

Tell your sister to stop sharing stuff that isn't her business with people who this teacher ISN'T friends with on Facebook.

Smh. YABU

God are you actually ok hun ? This should be a total non issue to any normal person

Sorry for typos - I’m blaming my phone!

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No one has said teachers should not drink in pubs.
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Don't be so utterly snobbish and ridiculous! Of course teachers can go out and enjoy life- the same as everyone else- and post it on social media if they want to!
Surely you have just posted this for reactions and don't really believe teachers are in the wrong for going out with friends/basically being normal?
I have a professional job and it's sometimes suggested that we shouldn't socialise.. it really annoys me!
I suggest that you start having a bit more respect for such professions; there won't be many rushing to join these professions if the way we are treated carries on like this.

Ah yep, fair enough, I hadn't considered that. I had only taken in to account teachers adding parents that they have met through school.

We manage to have plenty of departmental nights out without plastering it on Facebook.

Is posting one photograph of friends out together 'plastering' to on Facebook?
Surely it is simply posting a picture. Nothing more, nothing less.
Why the judgemental type of language, just because it involves a social media account - something being posted to a PRIVATE account at that.

@StoppinBy I mentioned it upthread, but some of us teachers are also parents of kids in our own school, so we know other parents socially that way!

The OP later clarified that her friend and the teacher were already SM friends before they had the teacher/parent relationship. That isn't unusual ime.

It’s the type of thing that would be pulled up by SLG though if a parent wrote in (and they can, and sometimes even do).

A photo of a night out with smiles etc. in a bar is one thing. Advertising a group of staff sinking shots…..not really appropriate. It’s not that you don’t do it, it just doesn’t need to be publicised.

We get regular reminders to think carefully about what we post and I don’t consider that to be a bad thing, especially if you’re hoping for your career to progress.

If I heard that a fellow parent at school or a friend did something as nasty and malicious as to report to someone's employer that they'd been drinking alcohol on a night out with the sheer plan of getting them into trouble I would absolutely unfriend them and block on any sm and fully avoid them in person.

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If I heard that a fellow parent at school or a friend did something as nasty and malicious as to report to someone's employer that they'd been drinking alcohol on a night out with the sheer plan of getting them into trouble I would absolutely unfriend them and block on any sm and fully avoid them in person

My school had a vexatious communications policy. It covered this sort of thing. Spiteful attacks on staff.

The teacher is not in the wrong for going out or for posting on social media, albeit that it wasn’t a wise thing to do. However, many schools do have policies that say staff should not have parents as social media friends, for exactly this reason, and some of these are heavily enforced, especially by academy chains.

Your friend could well have jeopardised this teacher (who she calls a friend)'s professional career. I would be deleting the photos so they can not be further shared from your account and unfriending this person PDQ before they do the same or similar to you.

It wasn't "advertised", nor "publicised". It was some photos shared privately with some friends.

Unfortunately, one of those friends chose to show the photos to the OP, Judgy McJudgyPants, who is now up in arms that these photos have been shared, conveniently forgetting that it was HER friend who has shared them beyond the closed sphere of the teacher's private Facebook!!

It wasn't "advertised", nor "publicised". It was some photos shared privately with some friends.

Unfortunately, one of those friends chose to show the photos to the OP, Judgy McJudgyPants, who is now up in arms that these photos have been shared, conveniently forgetting that it was HER friend who has shared them beyond the closed sphere of the teacher's private Facebook!!

Why aren't posters getting this ^ ? You don't even have to have RTFT, just the OP.

Plus the teacher doesn't have random parents on her FB, she is friends with one of OP's friends who happens to be a parent. Although she isn't a very loyal friend it seems

If posters and other people wish to restrict what teachers do out of hours there will be even fewer teachers left.

Some years ago the government tried to implement such a policy they were told to fuck off.

Quite clearly people need to be more prudent about whom they are friends with on Social Media. Tweak the settings. Block-delete any nuisance friends and acquaintances.
And no people don't need to see anyone downing shots or swinging off stripping poles. Have a bit of common sense fgs.
The ultimate guarding is to not have social media at all.

Isn’t the risk of Facebook is that anyone can share your photos? Anyone could save a photo and share it? Even if you only have your friends on. Don’t tell me that no one has ever looked at someone’s else’s Facebook post through a friend because the friend is friends with that person? Loads of people do that!!

So my mum might show me her friend’s daughter’s wedding pictures? I’m not friends with my mum’s friend or her daughter but mum can show me the photos.

Isn’t the risk of Facebook is that anyone can share your photos?

Sure. I wouldn’t post anything on FB that I wouldn’t be happy for anyone else to see - and I’m sure the teacher is thinking the same and had this in mind when she put photos on there.
Some posters are acting like she’s shared some nude photos or written and posted a detailed account of her latest sexual encounter... It’s photos of a night out FFS, what’s the issue with that? Since when is drinking a shot and having a dance with your friends a ‘private’ thing. People need to get a grip of themselves, I feel like I’ve time travelled back to 1952 and the teacher in question is in fact a nun at a catholic school.

How far down the line do you have to go before its not the person that posted it's fault?

This is the same line of thinking as victim blaming.

victim blaming is taking it a bit far! The bottom line is ANYTHING posted on social media is accessible to the world. You have no control no matter how much you trust your friends that no one else will see you post.