… to think this is wrong? Teacher’s blog slagging off school!

[Sallycantwaitnoel]

A teacher at DCs’ school has her own personal lifestyle blog. Only realized today as something I was looking at for work (similar fields) led me to her pages. OMG! Literally a picture of the grim reaper and her description of the last toxic year she’s spent under crap leadership, she’s got to get out, blah blah blah. It’s all there in the open under her own name. Definitely her as she has pictures of her with family on there too. AIBU to think this is the height of unprofessional? And do I pass the info on to the school?

It would for a teacher too, she's very stupid if she has actually done this.
Agreed. She's been very very stupid.

I think it's a bit of a stretch from making vacuous posts slagging off her boss to being considered to be a threat to children.

Why not just let her know, anonymously, and can fix the settings on her blog so it's private?

This happened when I was at school ~15 years ago - one of the teachers had a blog and was bitching about the school management, parents, students.

Some of the 6th formers found it and printed off dozens of copies which they went round school handing out to students and staff One of the national papers picked it up too, I can't remember which.

She, rightly, was asked to resign.

I mean you're not wrong, but now I really want to read her blog.

Very silly of her, but I would ignore and stay away from it all.

She will get fired for it. No way that school know.

I agree that the school can’t know about it given she still has her job. If you report her, she will be dismissed. I’d give her the heads up to change her security settings but also understand that what she has vented online is probably on a par with how a lot of teachers feel.

Depends- does she teach one of your children for a GCSE/A-level subject? Would you want them left without a teacher at such a crucial time?

What about other people's children?

She would probably lose her job over this- the impact of this on some of her students may still be greater than the impact on her.

very weird indeed for a teacher to do this, she surely knows it is a sackable offence - sounds like either you have got the wrong person, or some sort of deliberate self sabotage

It's a serious error of judgement and like others, I'd wonder at her suitability to be a teacher if she can't see that....

I recently had to conduct an investigation into something vaguely similar as a governor, and the ultimate upshot was that while posts had been made with the intention of being anonymous, they can no longer be treated as anonymous (as the parents have discovered them) therefore do not meet the standards expected of teachers - your school should have a policy on this. It then depends on the nature of the posts and how the teacher responds - comply with all requirements, quit it all together, receive a note on file (as mine did) or, don't, and go through full disciplinary. You won't be told what the outcome is as it's HR procedure but you'd notice if they left.

Unfortunately I would probably say that yes you need to report to head teacher and / or chair of governors. It's not nice but these people are in charge of our children's education and have to be held to account.