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Parents want primary school teachers sacked for Facebook photos

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VivaLeBeaver · 22/05/2011 21:30

Sorry for the Daily Mail link. I think this is awful. Poor teachers, its not like they're doing anything illegal. The photos don't actually seem bad from what's on the link. I've got worse on my FB profile.

Yes they probably should have had their profiles on private but primary school kids aren't allowed on FB so wouldn't have seen them. And the parents shouldn't be so bloody stalkerish.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389292/Disgrace-drinking-pole-dancing-primary-school-teachers-published-pictures-Facebook.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

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Goblinchild · 23/05/2011 20:30

'It's maintaining a professional demeanour around impressionable young children that is the issue.'

Smile We are discussing a hen night outside of school hours and after bed time Rob.

RobF · 23/05/2011 22:33

The hen night isn't the problem, it's the fact that photos of them behaving raucously are getting into the hands of parents that is the problem.

Goblinchild · 23/05/2011 22:38

Parents aren't impressionable children and should be able to see that behaviour within the school environment is something they are at liberty to comment on. And that legal behaviour outside that environment is none of their business.

SoupDragon · 24/05/2011 07:29

How does the fact that the photos were seen by parents mean the teachers weren't maintaining a professional demeanour around impressionable young children? Are you saying that the parents are primary school children? That is truly shocking and far worse than young teachers having fun... I think the school needs to look at their sex education.

Personally I think this says far more about the nosey, witch hunting, prudish parents than the teachers.

whomovedmychocolate · 24/05/2011 07:34

Um Rob, children aren't meant to use Facebook.

FGS I'm sure if you looked at the parent's Facebook pages you'd probably find similar. I am capable of seeing people as move than one thing, when my boss got squiffy and danced the timewarp with his tie wrapped round his head do you think it made the next board meeting hard for me as I imagined him as a louche? Of course not Biscuit

whomovedmychocolate · 24/05/2011 07:35

Ah you were joking (Sorry I had my 'righteous indignation for anyone who agrees with the DM' head on Blush) Grin

Feenie · 24/05/2011 07:39

He isn't joking!

RobF · 24/05/2011 09:24

"I am capable of seeing people as move than one thing, when my boss got squiffy and danced the timewarp with his tie wrapped round his head do you think it made the next board meeting hard for me as I imagined him as a louche?"
You're an adult.

SoupDragon · 24/05/2011 09:47

"you're an adult"

As are the parents who whinged about the photos!

besidemyselfwithfury · 25/05/2011 22:20

If the parents don't want their primary aged kids to see the photos on Facebook then they should be parenting them and making sure they don't go on FB - after all it is for over 13's.

totally ridiculous - typical DM judgey and hideous.

The parent involved sounds like a vile nosey judgey old bat, who clearly has no life and is probably jealous as hell of these attractive and fun loving women.

Icoulddoitbetter · 25/05/2011 22:33

What kind of parent photocopies these and posts them through the neighbour's doors? Batty! How DARE a teacher act like a normal twenty-something woman and have fun on a hen night, shocking.....

Cymar · 26/05/2011 11:38

I bet those parents are perfect pillars of the community and have NEVER done anything wrong in their lives Hmm.......

If they don't want their kids seeing that kind of stuff on FB then they shouldn't let 10yo's on FB in the 1st place. TBH, I don't think the teachers could anything right by those parents anyway.

Frustratedmumof2 · 14/07/2015 16:47

I got into trouble because something i had posted had been replied to with a profanity by my cousin; my privacy settings were good and this went out to all of my friends - who had parents (because they were relatives) as their friends, who saw the post. I did not swear or use the name of my employer but someone, a friend of a friend and a parent at school, screenshot it and took into school to share with the head. I was accused of bringing the school into disrepute; i had simply said it had been a tough day at work. I don't use my own name on facebook any more nor do i post photos. Very dangerous - and very hypocritical as I disapprove of parents who post photos of their children on said website.

RiverTam · 14/07/2015 16:50

This is just daft, however I do think anyone who doesn't have their FB profile private is also pretty daft.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 15/07/2015 11:42

Teachers can live their lives however they want; these women's mistake was to put the pictures on Facebook without the appropriate privacy settings

This - in a nutshell

SurlyCue · 15/07/2015 11:48

"If you are as appalled as I am by these images which these tramps post freely for the world to see, how safe are our children"

This makes no fucking sense at all! Confused

Its bloody ridiculous. Those parents sound thick as fuck and as if theyre just stirring up shite for the entertainment.

SurlyCue · 15/07/2015 11:51

And that wasnt even a pole. It was a pillar.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 15/07/2015 11:56

Are the parents going to show the photos to their children? Or are they letting their children have unfettered access to the internet and FB, despite their age? Either of these makes them a bit feckless, in my book - and unless any of the complaining parents actually are this feckless, then their children are unlikely to see the photos, and no harm will be done.

As far as I am concerned, teachers are allowed to have a private life, and as Surly suggests, the parents are just stirring up shite - probably for the sake of a few moments 'fame' in the Daily Fail.

SoupDragon · 15/07/2015 12:00

ZOMBIE ALERT!

2011 people, 2011.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 15/07/2015 12:00

Fuckeldybugger.

holmessweetholmes · 15/07/2015 12:04

Teachers should be allowed to do what they like (within the law) outside of school hours. However, they should be very careful what they post on social media.

My dh mentors trainee teachers. As soon as he gets the names of the new cohort of trainees, he searches them on the internet and shows the trainees everything he's found! Potentially embarrassing, but it serves as a very good warning!

FenellaFellorick · 15/07/2015 12:05

So basically this story is
'adults perform well and professionally in their jobs and have a social life seperate from their working life that does not affect the quality of their work in any way'

People have got to stop thinking that someone doing a certain type of job is public property.

The best lesson children can learn from this is that people behave appropriately at work and there are times in life to be serious and times to let your hair down and that's ok.

Not 'if you're a teacher you must give over your entire life and behave at all times as though you exist in a Disney film'

FenellaFellorick · 15/07/2015 12:06

Bollocks. How do people find these aged threads and bump them into active convoys?

FenellaFellorick · 15/07/2015 12:07

Convos

SurlyCue · 15/07/2015 12:09

Ahh fuck.