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

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Anonymous wrote:Only trashy people do this. They are never going to be anything else than trashy. Nobody I know does this.

100%. It's so tacky.

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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.

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does that mean I can criticize parents, too?!

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Wow, what a raging Beotch you are.

But I know how to take down teachers like you, and I've done it. ANd I've taken down administrators with them.

Okay crazy. See the other thread, "Why is there a teacher shortage?"
PP is the reason.

Bahahaha, truer words have never been spoken.

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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?!

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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

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Anonymous wrote:I guess parents won’t mind if teacher’s post about young Larlo and his inability to behave during zoom class.

Go for it. It will be fun to watch you get torn limb from limb by the lynch mob.

Yeah, this already exists on Facebook. Do you have any idea how many teacher groups are out there?

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Anonymous wrote:There's a big difference between:

Ms. Monica Bing at Radlin Middle School is just AWFUL! So shrill, always screaming at the kids, talks nonstop during tests and refusing to let the kids mute their laptops, etc.

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My daughter's 3rd grade teacher is really making my DD hate school. I am scrambling to make things better but she's just awful.

I disagree. Though not specifically naming is better, her daughter’s third grade teacher might be known to the friends. You are still identifying a professional and criticizing her on social media.

What do you do for a living? Do you think it would be ok for your client or coworker to post “my coworker who works on blah blah blah is just awful”?

People leave reviews for service providers all the time. I'm frequently asked by the providers to leave reviews on Facebook/Google/Yelp.

So you equate a teacher to.... wait staff?

Hi, I’m a physician and people rate me online.

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Well, with that attitude I can tell why you'd get defensive at the idea of parents writing public reviews of your performance as a teacher.

The attitude that I will not allow myself to be walked all over? Yeah, you're right. I should allow parents to ruin my career because they blame teachers for the colossal mishandling of the pandemic at every level of government.
I am an excellent teacher. My ratings and scores speak for themselves. I love the kids and I love my job. Dealing with the (few) entitled parents that I've encountered is awful and I will not allow it to suck the passion for my job out of me, as it has to so many teachers. I've seen parents scream at teachers in the office, and that teacher leaving in tears. It is disgusting and embarrassing. By contrast, I have never once seen a teacher respond in kind.

Yeah, pretty much everything you've written suggests otherwise, on all counts.

Perhaps if you put as much effort into doing your job as you do defending yourself, you wouldn't get as many complaints about your performance.

I never said I've gotten complaints about my performance. I've had crazy parents write me letters IN ALL CAPS about personal favors they demand I do for them.
Communicating the inappropriate things that parents say and do to the people I report to does not make me a bad teacher. You're welcome for the heads up and you can adjust your behavior accordingly.

I do appreciate the warning to watch out for the crazies. Bases on your posts, I suspect your mental and emotional instability is apparent to anyone after a brief interaction.

It doesn’t make me unstable to report problems to my higher up. That’s literally protocol. It is very concerning to me that this is all of a sudden causing parents to panic. Did they actually think they were raging at teachers in a vacuum?

Pop another xanax. The only panicky people in this thread are teachers who are worried about getting called out in public now that parents can see the the level of effort the teachers are putting in. No one is worried about your vague threats.

This looks like one defensive and unprofessional teacher.

Teaching is a very public job. You have to cope better with people who do not like you or appreciate what you are doing, even if you don’t agree with their criticism. Why don’t you pay attention to the feedback in whatever form it comes and try to address the complaints?

Disliking you or your teaching is not a threat.

When it's posted publicly, it's not being addressed in a respectful manner. That is what the teachers are upset about. I have lots of discussions with parents on how to change things in the classroom so their child can be more succeasful. It's not a threat when it occurs online, it's just super immature, passive-aggressive, and tacky..

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Because teachers are not paid directly by you, like with those other professionals. You are not employing us. We provide a service to our communities, not a luxury good that you are personally seeking out and paying for. You are not comparing teachers to decide which one to hire, which is ostensibly the purpose of other reviews.

Honestly, I don't care if you post personal attacks about teachers online. Go for it! Know that it is classless and weird and do what you want. Teachers, though, will absolutely hear about it from other parents etc. who you are friends with. We will inform our administrators and our coworkers. And we will conduct ourselves with you accordingly in the future-I would certainly never go out of my way for a parent that was gossiping about me or any of my colleagues like that. I don't need that energy in my life.

That's an interesting thought. Perhaps we should let parents request teachers based on the reviews of other parents. We could actually do where I grew up, in the days before the internet as we know it. They obviously couldn't guarantee placement (you could identify two), but it seemed like it worked out most of the time. I know a lot of families didn't put in teacher requests.

My mom was a teacher in the same school. It's not so much that she had a preference for a particular teacher as much as there was always one or two teachers per grade she didn't want me to have.

Are you in northern Virginia? Parents request teachers every school year.

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Because teachers are not paid directly by you, like with those other professionals. You are not employing us. We provide a service to our communities, not a luxury good that you are personally seeking out and paying for. You are not comparing teachers to decide which one to hire, which is ostensibly the purpose of other reviews.

Honestly, I don't care if you post personal attacks about teachers online. Go for it! Know that it is classless and weird and do what you want. Teachers, though, will absolutely hear about it from other parents etc. who you are friends with. We will inform our administrators and our coworkers. And we will conduct ourselves with you accordingly in the future-I would certainly never go out of my way for a parent that was gossiping about me or any of my colleagues like that. I don't need that energy in my life.

That's an interesting thought. Perhaps we should let parents request teachers based on the reviews of other parents. We could actually do where I grew up, in the days before the internet as we know it. They obviously couldn't guarantee placement (you could identify two), but it seemed like it worked out most of the time. I know a lot of families didn't put in teacher requests.

My mom was a teacher in the same school. It's not so much that she had a preference for a particular teacher as much as there was always one or two teachers per grade she didn't want me to have.

Are you in northern Virginia? Parents request teachers every school year.

In Maryland, from the Midwest. I didn't know any schools out here let you request teachers. That seems like a good reason to have public reviews and critiques of teachers.

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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.

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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.

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Good teachers will have nothing to worry about. Why shouldn’t parents and others be aware of poor educators?

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Anonymous wrote:Teachers wanted all distance learning and this is an unintended consequence. If you’re in parents homes, parents are going to have an opinion about everything you do. Don’t like it ... push to get back in the classrooms.

Sure. I’ll push back time so Trump and the CDC don’t completely both the coronavirus response. Better, I’ll push back time all the way so people won’t vote for Trump.

Yeah, sorry. Now you want to threaten teachers by trashing them online because you hate distance learning? And if teachers object then they should rush back into unsafe working conditions so parents back off? No. I will not be bullied by you or any other parent, I don’t care how angry and red in the face you get. I will report you to my supervisor if you do anything unethical and if your child tells me that you say “this isn’t real school, so I don’t have to do the work” I will put that in writing to my boss as well. Don’t think you can walk all over me. I don’t work for you and I see right through you.

Ooooh... You're going to report me to *your* supervisor. In writing, no less.

You should work on your threats.

It isn't a threat, it's an insurance policy against your vendetta. I will document every single lunatic thing you say and do. When you try to contact my boss to tell them I'm not doing my job, they're already prepared to shut you down. I've already done this with several parents who were out of control, and it has worked every single time because I document the truth of the situation. Not only do I inform the administration, but the other teachers and related service providers about inappropriate behavior so they are all on guard. You think you start fresh with next year's teacher? Not so. Just this week, I was contacted directly by the teacher of a student of mine who aged up to high school. Your reputation as a parent and as a person is on the line, just as much as anyone else's. You want to live in a world where you expose others who you don't like? Welcome to it.

If you think that administrators can run their schools without teachers then you are sorely mistaken. We are on the same team.

I don't need to make empty threats. You can cry about how mean I am to the other wine moms all you want.

Well, with that attitude I can tell why you'd get defensive at the idea of parents writing public reviews of your performance as a teacher.

The attitude that I will not allow myself to be walked all over? Yeah, you're right. I should allow parents to ruin my career because they blame teachers for the colossal mishandling of the pandemic at every level of government.
I am an excellent teacher. My ratings and scores speak for themselves. I love the kids and I love my job. Dealing with the (few) entitled parents that I've encountered is awful and I will not allow it to suck the passion for my job out of me, as it has to so many teachers. I've seen parents scream at teachers in the office, and that teacher leaving in tears. It is disgusting and embarrassing. By contrast, I have never once seen a teacher respond in kind.

Yeah, pretty much everything you've written suggests otherwise, on all counts.

Perhaps if you put as much effort into doing your job as you do defending yourself, you wouldn't get as many complaints about your performance.

I never said I've gotten complaints about my performance. I've had crazy parents write me letters IN ALL CAPS about personal favors they demand I do for them.
Communicating the inappropriate things that parents say and do to the people I report to does not make me a bad teacher. You're welcome for the heads up and you can adjust your behavior accordingly.

I do appreciate the warning to watch out for the crazies. Bases on your posts, I suspect your mental and emotional instability is apparent to anyone after a brief interaction.

It doesn’t make me unstable to report problems to my higher up. That’s literally protocol. It is very concerning to me that this is all of a sudden causing parents to panic. Did they actually think they were raging at teachers in a vacuum?

Pop another xanax. The only panicky people in this thread are teachers who are worried about getting called out in public now that parents can see the the level of effort the teachers are putting in. No one is worried about your vague threats.

This looks like one defensive and unprofessional teacher.

Teaching is a very public job. You have to cope better with people who do not like you or appreciate what you are doing, even if you don’t agree with their criticism. Why don’t you pay attention to the feedback in whatever form it comes and try to address the complaints?

Disliking you or your teaching is not a threat.

When it's posted publicly, it's not being addressed in a respectful manner. That is what the teachers are upset about. I have lots of discussions with parents on how to change things in the classroom so their child can be more succeasful. It's not a threat when it occurs online, it's just super immature, passive-aggressive, and tacky..

Assumes facts not in evidence.

It's clear you'd consider any criticism of a teacher online, or in a public forum, to be inappropriate and disrespectful, regardless if the circumstances. That's an absurd position to hold when it is well-established that it is appropriate to do so with other professions.

You're in a public job, made even more public with the internet, and now distance learning. Grow thicker skin.