High School Facebook Protocol

[Aliantha]

Maybe you should just bring it up at a P&C meeting as a general discussion topic. Suggest that all teachers or possibly the school as a whole has a FB page where teachers and students can interact, or better yet, get them to put a discussion forum on the school website for teachers and students to use.

I understand your point, but whether it's as clear as in other schools, there's still a power gap between students and teachers. We have a few alternative schools over here too, so I do understand how they work, and being about 2 semesters short of being a HS teacher myself, and having a number of teachers in my family (several of them very close relatives) and being a parent myself with kids on FB and being a FB user myself, I feel I have a pretty broad base of understanding for this particular issue. It has been discussed at length at family things and so on.

Anyway, I've said what I believe. I just don't think FB between teachers and students is appropriate regardless of the setting. Adults sometimes say or do things that probably shouldn't be said or done in front of kids. That's not to say there's anything wrong with it, but outside of school hours, a teacher has the same right to relax and forget about their job as much as anyone else. Why should they have to censure their own words or actions just because their FB friends might not like it?