I am a primary school teacher and have worked in my current school for only a few months. I was telling my husband about our Reception teacher, who is male, and how he is in charge of ICT in the school and uses an online learning journey for the parent to see. He is out ICT troubleshooter and is an expert on computers, the internet etc. He films and photographs the children and puts evidence on the blog for the parents to see and has also set up the school's website. My husband, who is a social worker, said alarm bells were ringing for him, since a man who was working with children and such an expert in ICT fitted the profile for an abuser. They know how to hide evidence and delet files. I dismissed this, saying how nice he was, how friendly and good with the kids. But the seed of doubt has been sown and now I see him differently.
Almost the next day he came to see me about a girl in my class, who is a vulnerable child and has social workers involved in her family. He said that she was playing inappropriately with some of the boys in Reception and he implied that she 'knew what she was doing' and was 'loving the attention'. I was shocked at his implied sexualisation of this girl and reminded him that she is only 6 and extremely vulnerable. When I investigated further, there was hugging and hand holding going on in the playground but nothing particularly inappropriate. He wanted me to ban her from playing with these boys.
Tonight I looked at his profile on google. He has in his circles a ladyboy from Bangkok. This struck me as really weird. It's not his work google mail account (we use google mail for work emails) but it was an address that he sometimes contacts me from at home.
Basically, I am now a bit suspicious of him. I am wondering if he might be sending images of children to people on the web. Am I being a busybody or what? Does anyone have any advice? I suddenly don't trust him.