Be mindful of what you post — Employer could be watching
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Anonymous
Your district is probably breaking the law. Although in reality people often have to choose between their rights and attracting a lightning bolt. NEA guidance for teachers: Political Posts on Social Media The good news is that most political posts on social media deserve First Amendment protection. The posts are not a part of your job. You are not speaking for the school. And political speech is generally on a matter of public concern. All of these factors support your right to free speech. Even so, school districts may attempt to justify discipline on the ground that your social media post has materially disrupted the school environment. As a matter of First Amendment law, courts have to balance the school district’s interest against your and the public’s interest.1 The stronger the public interest in the speech, the more disruption the employer must show. You will have more protection when your speech is public, focuses on larger issues rather than personal gripes, and is respectful.2 **my comment--arguably, in such a case the more calls the district got about a SM post the more that would argue for public interest. Navigating Employer-Sponsored Social Media Your employer may have their own social media accounts or even their own social media platforms. They may encourage educators to create pages for their classes. Any posting you do on school-sponsored accounts is unlikely to receive First Amendment protection. First, you are more likely acting as an employee because the platform is employer-sponsored. Second, the audience for these is the educational institution community, rather than the public. Third, the content will likely be specific to the educational institution, rather than generally applicable. Finally, controversial posts on these platforms are more likely to disrupt the educational environment, since the point of the platform is to reach members of that community. Accordingly, you should be very careful about what you post on these sites. |
Anonymous
Celebrating a murder is not the same as repeating the deceased’s own words and expressing some relief that such an individual is no longer spewing his nastiness into the world. I never thought you were the party of intelligence but you know the difference because you are continually celebrating violence against everyone you don’t like. Your “Ends justified the means” way of thinking just happened to blow up on you big time. |
Anonymous
You call people who disagree with democrats fascist, and someone who takes you at your word engraves a bullet with "catch this fascist," to kill an outspoken republican, and yes, I blame you and your party for that. |
Anonymous
How many times do people have to tell you before you understand. It was a gamer meme. Please, please at least try to stop saying profoundly uninformed stuff. It reflects so poorly on you. |
Anonymous
Ignorance is their strength. |
Anonymous
| I’ve turned over posts I’ve seen from co workers on both sides to our HR. No one should be celebrating someone’s death nor should they be threatening others with physical harm regardless of what they say. |
Anonymous
You follow multiple co-workers on sm that have posted objectionable things “on both sides”? What kind of a place do you work at? |
Anonymous
The few people from work I connect with are kept away from my political posts. Does everyone not do this? |
Anonymous
Boy are you stupid. Protected class? LOLOLOLOL |
Anonymous
So if Democrats and their supporters do the same for all people who do similar re: violence against liberals and Democrats, you are fine with that. That would be a much much longer list and would include the POTUS. |
Anonymous
I DGAF who you blame. But you know exactly ZERO about his motivations yet. So you're just being a knee-jerk over-reactor. Nothing you've said is fact at this point other than what was on the bullets. THere's plenty to indicate he is, at best, mixed in his ideology and, likely has a right wing bent. |
Anonymous
I would never risk my salary/job and retirement to push limits. Not worth it. |
Anonymous
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I just appreciate the irony that the whole "F" your feelings crowd who gleefully celebrated Biden's failing health, Paul Pelosi getting beaten with a hammer, ignored their breathern who stampeded Congress with a noose and gallows, pretended like one of their own didn't cosplay as a cop and murder a couple of local politicians, and whose mindset something like 70-65% of mass shooters follows (whose very acts they claim are fabricated by the "deep state") are getting all bent out of shape because some Goebbels wanna be got shot by own of their own. Hypocrites. |