High School Facebook Protocol

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by monster

Thanks for your input, I do appreciate it.

We don't believe in a "professional distance". We have deliberately chosen (public) schools where distance between staf and students is seen as a bad thing. But that doesn't mean that professional is a bad thing.

Many of the teachers who teach my kids are very supportive and friendly towards them, but that doesn't mean they're 'friends' in any sense of the word, and in my opinion, that's how it should be between teachers and students. There is a power gap between kids and teachers, and that is why I chose the term 'professional distance'. Surely you can understand that.