totally inappropriate

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?

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 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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

so inappropriate

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

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!

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!

Very odd and poor boundaries.

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