As I indicated earlier and the teacher who just posted would agree is happening, young teachers are so used to the world of social media that they well may not realize how the lines of personal and professional need to be kept separated. And they are often clueless to realize that if they surf the web online to learn about friends activities etc., wouldn't ou think parents - liked hiring administrators - just might look up new teachers!! All teachers need to be told clearly and explicitly to clean up their on line presence (if possible), to realize if that anything out there which is not private needs to be viewed as public for all to find, and to not post photos of any students (especially those with SN) on line. No one needs to see a new first grade teacher partying and "doing shots," whether a parent of a NT or SN student as it does bring into mind a question of their judgment both in terms of personal past decision-making and present professional decision-making given that this is not professional behavior. With a SN daughter, I have always shied away from FB just for the reason of her privacy even now that she is employed as you just never know what "nut cases" are out there and it is so easy to find a complete address and to get a feel for a family's or individual's general patterns.

Note that the other reason I do not like FB in particular is that you may do all you can to protect your NT and SN children, but then their images or even names may well appear up on a friend's or relative's FB page.

I'm a teacher. I think this is common sense. Don't post students' photos in public.

But a lot of these are unspoken rules based on common sense that may not apply to a new generation of teachers. They may just not realize that this isn't okay. I can see it happening, and if it was once on a special/unusual occasion, I may let it slide, but this does not seem to be the case.

I think schools need to be explicit about these issues and many are not, especially privates.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not mind at all if my children's teachers posted pictures of them. My kids are NT though. She is proud to be their teacher. If you don't like it, I would ask her to take the pics down but no reason to get her in trouble for it. I have friends who are teachers and they post pics of their kids all the time.

If you don't see the difference between the two situations, then you have no business posting here.

No one should be embarrassed about sn, it's a good point to be inclusive.

Is this a joke, a troll or just innocent ignorance. Inclusion is not about posting photos on FB. You shouldn't post any minor's photos with out their guardian's consent or really at all, but this extra layer that SN adds just makes for more of a case against the teacher and school.

Hs your child ever had challenges? Should we put your child's photo with a group of kids in a photo with a caption "I just love my uncoordinated physically challenged students " or "They may fail tests, but they are just so darn cute. Love their smiles!!!" Even if that is OK with YOU, your child with one day be a middle schooler, teen and adult. How do you think your child would feel. The internet never forgets. Very easy to find even deleted stuff with the right tools.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would not mind at all if my children's teachers posted pictures of them. My kids are NT though. She is proud to be their teacher. If you don't like it, I would ask her to take the pics down but no reason to get her in trouble for it. I have friends who are teachers and they post pics of their kids all the time.

If you don't see the difference between the two situations, then you have no business posting here.

No one should be embarrassed about sn, it's a good point to be inclusive.

As has been mentioned already here it's discrimination not embarrassment that many families experience. Also it is CONFIDENTIAL info. You don't get to decide that my child's medical info is yours to share.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not mind at all if my children's teachers posted pictures of them. My kids are NT though. She is proud to be their teacher. If you don't like it, I would ask her to take the pics down but no reason to get her in trouble for it. I have friends who are teachers and they post pics of their kids all the time.

If you don't see the difference between the two situations, then you have no business posting here.

No one should be embarrassed about sn, it's a good point to be inclusive.

Anonymous wrote:I would not mind at all if my children's teachers posted pictures of them. My kids are NT though. She is proud to be their teacher. If you don't like it, I would ask her to take the pics down but no reason to get her in trouble for it. I have friends who are teachers and they post pics of their kids all the time.

If you don't see the difference between the two situations, then you have no business posting here.

I would not mind at all if my children's teachers posted pictures of them. My kids are NT though. She is proud to be their teacher. If you don't like it, I would ask her to take the pics down but no reason to get her in trouble for it. I have friends who are teachers and they post pics of their kids all the time.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't go to the department of special ed to complain about the principal, just like I wouldn't have gone to the principal to complain about the teacher. Moms need to act a bit less like little girls. You are not 8 years old. The teacher absolutely should not have put the pictures up, but she did not do it to hurt you or because she is evil. She just made an error in judgement. You could have just spoken directly to her about it instead of going behind her back. I am betting the principal's flippancy was partly because it is hard to take a grown woman acting like a tattle tale seriously, not matter what the topic. (And when the topic was that you appear to have been in the startup phase of cyberstalking your kid's teacher, well...)

If there is not a known policy in your county to address this issue that is important to you, you should form a committee, speak to a school board member, offer to help draft something or help educate teachers on the importance of this issue to parents. If you have time to be on this message board, you have time. Stop whining and tattling. Act like a grown up.

But the point is that there is a policy in FCPS, the teacher didn't follow it, and the principal seemed unconcerned when the parent brought the problem to her attention. This isn't about women acting like little girls or tattling. Yes, the teacher made an error in judgment, and the OP was absolutely correct in bringing the problem to the attention of her supervisor. It's not going behind the teacher's back, at all, it's pursuing the issue through the appropriate channels.

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't go to the department of special ed to complain about the principal, just like I wouldn't have gone to the principal to complain about the teacher. Moms need to act a bit less like little girls. You are not 8 years old. The teacher absolutely should not have put the pictures up, but she did not do it to hurt you or because she is evil. She just made an error in judgement. You could have just spoken directly to her about it instead of going behind her back. I am betting the principal's flippancy was partly because it is hard to take a grown woman acting like a tattle tale seriously, not matter what the topic. (And when the topic was that you appear to have been in the startup phase of cyberstalking your kid's teacher, well...)

If there is not a known policy in your county to address this issue that is important to you, you should form a committee, speak to a school board member, offer to help draft something or help educate teachers on the importance of this issue to parents. If you have time to be on this message board, you have time. Stop whining and tattling. Act like a grown up.

There is no way you have a child with SN.