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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am Facebook friends with a couple teachers who post pictures of their students all the time. 
It's usually special events at school, such as when they had a reptile man come in, but sometimes just regular classroom pictures with captions like "I love these kids" or "what a fun day we had today!"
They are both public school elementary teachers. It's been going on for years. So probably not a law against it [/quote]

Just because they do it doesn't make it ethical and it doesn't mean they are in compliance with school regulations. If there are no identifiable faces and it's just the backs of their heads as they watch reptile man introduce his critters then NBD. I'm not a fan of people plastering their own children all over public FB and IG accounts, but I'd rather see that then taking photos of other people's kids and displaying them without permission. It's creepy. You can say you love your job and post a selfie in front of your chalkboard. No need to violate the privacy of your students.[/quote]

I'm just saying that they are veteran teachers who have hundreds of Facebook friends, including other teachers, and they have been doing it for years. No back of heads, clear as day pictures of kids faces. I am not a teacher and my children are not in public school, just adding to the conversation. Schools are public places, I wonder is that is part of the issue here.[/quote]

The whole public places part may make it totally legal. No clue. I think when you reveal anything protected under FERPA it's an issue. Let's say you post a photo where a kid got back an exam and you can see he got a "C" or whatever. That IMO is protected info and FERPA trumps al IMO, but I'm not a lawyer.[/quote]

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