Her choice, but I support the rule.
Teachers should maintain a separate social life from their students.
ditto... but she is 79... i can see her not choosing her career at this point...
i have my own rule regarding Facebook... i do not except friend requests from anyone under 18--except for my sons... i think my youngest FB friend is my nephew's wife who is 28...
No mention whether this was a social ir work Facebook account. When I worked for KIPP Schools, many teachers had two accounts and kept their teaching Facebook page clear or their personal lives. Facebook can be very useful tracking students during. What is going on in a students social life can absolutely affect their learning. Public schools don’t really care, they don’t go the extra mile, and most simply want the kids to show up so they get paid. Once they graduate, they could care less. KIPP was the opposite. They went as far as to track their students in college and offer assistance. Its no wonder their are crushing the public school model.
oh bullshit
the kids and parents at my kids’ school have email addresses and phone numbers and email and call each other a lot.
What about the open door policy?
The school is effing wrong
It was much better when that used to be the case. The "friend" relationship, even when the adult has no bad intentions, can so easily be misread by students. Better that personal issues get referred to trained counselors.
Besides which, this is a substitute teacher. It's just not smart to be anything but aloof and just do the job...keeping the kids safe, maintaining order, teaching the lesson, leaving the room in one piece. If she can "friend" the students, so can anyone who walks in that room for a day.
What a short sighted ignorant statement. Both my wife and I teach. She full time and I part time. We live in a tiny town so we end up teaching our friends children and sometimes even distant relatives.
We are involved in 4H, the Police athletic league, and several other youth programs. We are around our students all the time, professionally, socially, and in their parents private homes as we visit our own friends.
Just how do you think we are supposed to act? Are we supposed to be rude and uncaring about our neighbors and friends children? Are we supposed to avoid them and not talk to them when they are at the local grocery store?
Here is the biggest question. Are we supposed to tell our own son that he can never have friends that we have taught or do teach and that never ever can these kids visit him in our home?
Back up and start over again. There is not any rational way you can support your statement and make it work in rural America.
i agree with you