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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers can't have it both ways ~ be special snowflakes who require endless gratitude, teacher appreciation VS be a professional. Sometimes professionals get reviews. Sometimes professionals get criticized.

Teachers are reviewed all the time. Several times a year by their supervisors, by team leads, by parents via email or conferences. Not quite sure what you're talking about.

[Anonymous]

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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.

But this is a critique of someone’s job performance online. Maybe it is because I grew up in a small town but I can’t imagine writing something negative about the way someone is performing their job on social media, except maybe a politician who is a public figure.

Actually, I think it is similar... the state mandates that you send your child to school. The school mandates that you have a particular teacher. The teacher is an agent of the government, whether they think of themselves that way or not. It is probably not a good idea while your child is in the classroom, but the system has been set up to provide parents (consumers) with no direct way to respond to poor behavior by teachers. Yes, we vote for School Board members, but even they don't engage in running the school system. So, options to "fight back against the government" are limited here.

Yes, absolutely, great point. I also publicly name and trash my mailman, the clerk at the MVA, the public librarian, the Ride-On bus driver, my boss's wife who is a GS-10 paper pusher at the FDA, the guy at the vehicle emissions testing center, firefighters, the recycling people, the tech at the county Covid test site, and that nurse at Walter Reed who looked at me wrong. They are all "agents of the government," after all, and deserve to have their names publicly dragged through the mud when they displease me, the taxpayer. That's what they signed up for and they're all paid a fortune for it! This has improved my life immeasurably. None of my neighbors speak to me and I have $1800 in speeding tickets because the stupid cop wouldn't listen when I told him he worked for me, but there really is no downside.

“But teachers are conspiring against us!”

Haha, it's a big conspiracy theory! The teachers finally after hundreds of years banned together and decided that they are going to ruin every student and parents lives! And the best part? they're going to call it a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

I think reading this thread will make parents feel better about the comments they read on FB.