teachers facebook friends with parents

[Anonymous]

Noticed this seems to be a phenomenon with some teachers/parents at our school. Seems odd to me. Anyone else?

[Anonymous]

Very odd and poor boundaries.

[Anonymous]

I find this odd. The other day my ds' former preschool director (still the director but my ds aged out/no longer attends) commented on a friends' post during school hours!

[Anonymous]

I think it's highly inappropriate. I'm not FB friends with my boss. I certainly don't want to be FB friends with my kid's teacher, no matter how much I like her.

Some of my neighbors are FB friends with teachers at the school. It freaks me out!

[Anonymous]

Teacher here and I agree, totally inappropriate. Is this in a Bethesda neighborhood because I have a feeling I know where...

[Anonymous]

so inappropriate

[Anonymous]

07:59 here. I'm in Rockville, not Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher. Baaaaad idea, very bad. It's against MCPS policy for staff to friend students (even former students, if they are still in MCPS), and I would probably extend the appropriateness level to parents as well.

[Anonymous]

I have seen this with all the "in" pta type moms. The ones who are chatting with the teachers when I drop my kid off. One of my friends posted pics of a bachelorette party and a teach at my kid's school was there! There was a pic of her doing shots with the rest of them. Yuck!

[Anonymous]

Teachers are not the help. They are members of the community and therefore can have friends. What's next, should they be excluded from the Rotary Club if a parent is a member? If you don't want to be friends with a teacher, fine. Other people don't have the same class boundaries you do.

[Anonymous]

OMG. No one said teachers are The Help and can't have friends. I find it inappropriate for me to be FB friends with my child's teacher. I also find it inappropriate to be FB friends with my child's teacher from last year, or the year before that.

I'm not FB friends with my boss or about 95% of the people I work with. It's the same principle.

I simply want to keep my personal life separate from my own work and my child's school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are not the help. They are members of the community and therefore can have friends. What's next, should they be excluded from the Rotary Club if a parent is a member? If you don't want to be friends with a teacher, fine. Other people don't have the same class boundaries you do.

In less they were friends before the kids entered the classroom, teachers and parents should wait to start a friendship until after the kids are no longer in that classroom/school.

[Anonymous]

Very strange. I believe half of this. I think its more like a few young teachers being friended by the parents and not visa versa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are not the help. They are members of the community and therefore can have friends. What's next, should they be excluded from the Rotary Club if a parent is a member? If you don't want to be friends with a teacher, fine. Other people don't have the same class boundaries you do.

In less they were friends before the kids entered the classroom, teachers and parents should wait to start a friendship until after the kids are no longer in that classroom/school.

Why?

[Anonymous]

totally inappropriate