Parents posting critiques of their kids’ teachers on Facebook and other social media

[Anonymous]

Tax dollars pay for public employees. If underperforming teachers are sucking up public funds, citizens need to be aware to hold the administrators accountable.

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Anonymous wrote:What are teachers so scared of. Do a good job and parents may complain but won't be able to point to anything.

If I'm watching my kids teacher abuse kids or clearly have not prepared on Zoom. Why can't i comment.

Please make that comment where it's appropriate, with the teacher or principal. Not to your 1,000 BFFs on Facebook.

seriously!!! if you are watching a teacher abuse kids and your response is to...post it on facebook...omg what kind of person are you?!

Better than quietly reporting to the principal who can't do anything to the teacher and can't fire them. Thank the teachers unions.

uh, if a teacher is abusing children law enforcement should be called. think with your head.

Its over zoom. I should call the police over verbal abuse and subtle bullying?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are teachers so scared of. Do a good job and parents may complain but won't be able to point to anything.

If I'm watching my kids teacher abuse kids or clearly have not prepared on Zoom. Why can't i comment.

Please make that comment where it's appropriate, with the teacher or principal. Not to your 1,000 BFFs on Facebook.

seriously!!! if you are watching a teacher abuse kids and your response is to...post it on facebook...omg what kind of person are you?!

Better than quietly reporting to the principal who can't do anything to the teacher and can't fire them. Thank the teachers unions.

uh, if a teacher is abusing children law enforcement should be called. think with your head.

Its over zoom. I should call the police over verbal abuse and subtle bullying?

if a teacher is verbally abusing and bullying students, you should report it to the department of education in your state.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What are teachers so scared of. Do a good job and parents may complain but won't be able to point to anything.

If I'm watching my kids teacher abuse kids or clearly have not prepared on Zoom. Why can't i comment.

Please make that comment where it's appropriate, with the teacher or principal. Not to your 1,000 BFFs on Facebook.

seriously!!! if you are watching a teacher abuse kids and your response is to...post it on facebook...omg what kind of person are you?!

Better than quietly reporting to the principal who can't do anything to the teacher and can't fire them. Thank the teachers unions.

uh, if a teacher is abusing children law enforcement should be called. think with your head.

Its over zoom. I should call the police over verbal abuse and subtle bullying?

if a teacher is verbally abusing and bullying students and the principal isn't doing anything about it, you should report it to the superintendent and department of education in your state.

[Anonymous]

What teacher really cares what a bunch of whack jobs post on Facebook? I mean, really? The only people dissing teachers on Facebook are complete losers and I hope those teachers go after them to sue for libel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What teacher really cares what a bunch of whack jobs post on Facebook? I mean, really? The only people dissing teachers on Facebook are complete losers and I hope those teachers go after them to sue for libel.

You can only win a lawsuit if what they are posting is not true. And if you bring a frivolous lawsuit, you will have to pay not only your legal fees, but the defendants legal fees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At this point why the heck not. We post everything else online, whether warranted or not, so why not teachers... It’s annoying and stupid and childish and entitled, but so is 99.9% of the internet.

We just made a Yelp entry fir the schools third grade by teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:What are teachers so scared of. Do a good job and parents may complain but won't be able to point to anything.

If I'm watching my kids teacher abuse kids or clearly have not prepared on Zoom. Why can't i comment.

Please make that comment where it's appropriate, with the teacher or principal. Not to your 1,000 BFFs on Facebook.

Just saying, teacher and principal do nothing about it. At least now other parents are aware of a possible issue

I have spoke with a principal about a teacher in the past and all he did was shrug and say there was nothing he could do about it because of the union. But now? Oh hells yeah am I going to out a bad teacher on FB.
Name and shame, that's the new manta now, right?

[Anonymous]

Parents are not customers. It’s not like you’re visiting a restaurant or a doctor and you can simply decide to take your money elsewhere. The teacher is not beholden to you to keep you as a customer. Your child was assigned to her and her salary is paid by the entire county, not by your dollars. You don’t have the leverage you think you have. Plus, it’s ugly.

[Anonymous]

Teachers are not public figures, so libel and defamation issues are at play here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are not public figures, so libel and defamation issues are at play here.

Sure. But to be libel they still have to be false statements purported as facts, not opinions. And there has to be actual damages.

In general, people here aren't suggesting that parents are posting falsehoods as facts. Just that it's unfair to post unflattering things about teachers in public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:does that mean I can criticize parents, too?!

I’ve actually seen teachers do this! Not calling out parents by names but it still runs me the wrong way in the same way the teacher complaint posts do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents are not customers. It’s not like you’re visiting a restaurant or a doctor and you can simply decide to take your money elsewhere. The teacher is not beholden to you to keep you as a customer. Your child was assigned to her and her salary is paid by the entire county, not by your dollars. You don’t have the leverage you think you have. Plus, it’s ugly.

But as another poster indicated, some school districts let you request teachers. It certainly makes sense in those cases to give other parents information to assist in such requests.

And perhaps more districts should allow such requests.

[Anonymous]

This is awesome. So I get to make public reviews of the parents by name too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is awesome. So I get to make public reviews of the parents by name too?

That would be amusing, but no.