Teachers need to be aware that they can be held responsible for all the information they post online. Students, or even school administrators, can get access to their pages and if they feel that they are reading inappropriate material, action may be taken against the teacher. Let's review the consequences of the previous cases.
John Bush, a 52 yr. old physical education teacher, was fired for having an inappropriate, not pornographic, photogrpah on his website. He is currently fighting to get his job back.
Stacy Snyder, a student at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, was denied her teaching degree due to an "unprofessional" photo on her Myspace. The picture of her drinking with a Pirate's Hat on her head and a caption "Drunken Pirate" costs her a degree. The school refused to issue her a teaching degree and instead granted her an English degree.
These are just two examples of teachers whose private lives got intervened by a school board. Do you feel that teachers should lose their job for posting their lives on the Internet? Is it fair for them?
3 comments:
What a great topic. I am interested in what you wrote so far because what happens if a teacher posted strange info & his/her students know personal details already about the teacher. To me, as a student I would feel uncomfortable in class & it would make me not respect that teacher. I hope you will elaborate more on the teacher & student you briefly described in Blog 11 b/c I want to know what kind of photo Bush had on his website that got him fired.
I like that there were examples of the consequenses but i'd like to see more examples... are there any more cases? or only those two? How many more... that could be interesting, because I am going to be a teacher and it would be beneficial for me to know the stats or other issues that have come about from MySpace, Facebook, ect. It is very interesting. Also, what is the question that you will be answering through the research because right now I feel like you are leaving alot up to the reader to elvatuate the way that they feel after they have read your entries.
I agree with Daphne. I really like the examples that you gave so far but I'd like to see more of them and is there anymore up to date information on either of those two cases? I think this topic is awesome and I really can't wait to read more about it. You make the point about freedom of speech and I think it's a good point to bring up because teachers should be aloud to have Myspaces in their personal lives. I do agree that they should be kept private and that they shouldn't be aloud to be friends with their students but I don't feel that it should cost them their jobs if it has nothing to do with what is going on in school.
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