Parents facebook friends with teachers at DC's school?

[Anonymous]

Sorry, but I'm completely at 90 degrees to some of you other posters.

Big deal if parents and teachers are friends on FB. So what?

Why the artificial barriers?

And actually, I know a lot of teachers who take a lot of interest in seeing how the kids they taught and families they dealt with grow up and move on through the world.

To me it's weird and inappropriate that people wouldn't care about others, as opposed to those of you who evidently think it is weird and inappropriate to care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, but I'm completely at 90 degrees to some of you other posters.

Big deal if parents and teachers are friends on FB. So what?

Why the artificial barriers?

And actually, I know a lot of teachers who take a lot of interest in seeing how the kids they taught and families they dealt with grow up and move on through the world.

To me it's weird and inappropriate that people wouldn't care about others, as opposed to those of you who evidently think it is weird and inappropriate to care.

+1

[Anonymous]

Dunno. Some people do not use fb for anything overly personal so I wouldn't think it's a big deal. Presumably a teacher would be too smart to gossip about school or parents anyway on fb, lol, right?

I'm friends with my former/high school/middle school teachers but I am over 40 so that's a whole different thing.

[Anonymous]

I am not generally FB friends with my child's current teachers, but have a few former teachers. Particularly if I have some sort of connection with them outside of school. Most teacher friends won't be FB friends with a student until they are no longer their student, but they might be changing as some schools incorporate some social media collaboration int he classroom. Many teachers have a personal and a professional facebook account with slightly different names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At our FCPS a lot of the teachers are fB friends with the moms. Makes you feel like an outsider sometimes. I don't know who instigates it, though

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At our FCPS a lot of the teachers are fB friends with the moms. Makes you feel like an outsider sometimes. I don't know who instigates it, though

+1

What, they're friending all the other parents but you?

[Anonymous]

You can be a caring professional ~ and still realize the unique role teachers play. Teachers are not, and should not be, an ordinary "friend".

[Anonymous]

I just don't see a problem with this. I guess I don't see facebook as friends only - all my coworkers and people in my old grad programs are my "friends" without being friends. I have 200+ "friends."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just don't see a problem with this. I guess I don't see facebook as friends only - all my coworkers and people in my old grad programs are my "friends" without being friends. I have 200+ "friends."

So many as to be meaningless.