Two of my teachers were neighbors and family friends with kids my age.
I and they handled that much the same way I would handle my kids being friends with the CEO of my company. Distinct lines, and I was not their little-buddy.
I am close friends with my daughter's principle. It would be very inappropriate for her and he to be friends on Facebook.
My comment was about a comment that teachers had to have a separate social life from their students. In the tiny rural towns that will just never be.
On any given Friday night we have a bunch of teens in our home, all friends of our son. We help them with prepping for College admission tests, filling our scholarship applications, going through the fastfa applications, or what ever else the need is.
Our rules are that where the kids are their parents are always welcome and we won't lie to the cops or their parents about anything we know about them. Some parents show up and some other parents never show up or even call. Many times their kids are here because their parents will not help them.
This is a town of less than 2K people. All the locals went to school together when they were younger and the families are intermarried for several generations. Trying to separate social situations from all the kids at school would be rude to the kids and their parents.
By the way, I don't even have a facebook account.
It’s “principal”, remember? The principal is your pal?