Comments on: Teachers Gone Wild http://www.katesays.org/2008/05/14/teachers-gone-wild/ Education, technology, and everything in between Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:17:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Penelope http://www.katesays.org/2008/05/14/teachers-gone-wild/#comment-805 Penelope Wed, 14 May 2008 16:28:36 +0000 http://www.katesays.org/?p=174#comment-805 I like the "don't post anything in a public forum you wouldn't want your grandmother to read" rule. There's a lot of things mom & I talk about or do together that I might hesitate showing my grandparents'. The whole thing does frustrate me. I understand the concern that teachers shouldn't encourage questionable behavior in students. However, I don't like the idea that teachers should be angels, or should be held to a standard that no human being can achieve. Besides, so many of the people criticizing young teachers probably engaged in the same behavior when they were in college! The only difference is the internet. (Yes, it's a big difference.) There's something hypocritical in our culture, where we prefer to keep ourselves compartmentalized and complain more about the publicity of an action than the actual immorality/illegality of it. Penelopes last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/invisibleteacher/~3/275711661/brief-hiatus.html" rel="nofollow">Brief Hiatus</a> I like the “don’t post anything in a public forum you wouldn’t want your grandmother to read” rule. There’s a lot of things mom & I talk about or do together that I might hesitate showing my grandparents’.

The whole thing does frustrate me. I understand the concern that teachers shouldn’t encourage questionable behavior in students. However, I don’t like the idea that teachers should be angels, or should be held to a standard that no human being can achieve. Besides, so many of the people criticizing young teachers probably engaged in the same behavior when they were in college! The only difference is the internet. (Yes, it’s a big difference.) There’s something hypocritical in our culture, where we prefer to keep ourselves compartmentalized and complain more about the publicity of an action than the actual immorality/illegality of it.

Penelopes last blog post..Brief Hiatus

]]> By: Michelle http://www.katesays.org/2008/05/14/teachers-gone-wild/#comment-804 Michelle Wed, 14 May 2008 14:06:13 +0000 http://www.katesays.org/?p=174#comment-804 Personally, I've always taken care with what I put online, aware that the whole world is (potentially) watching. So I find myself without a lot of sympathy for people who put up things that they would rather not have others read. But this does bring up a question (and forgive me if your links answered it as I've only read your post): what about what others post? If you attend a party and maybe drink a little too much and pictures of it get posted by others, what then? Is it fair to expect people to be 100% sqeaky clean all of the time because of their profession? (Outside of nuns, I suppose. ;) ) Should employers look at pages belonging to an applicant's friends? Where does the line get drawn? Michelle Disclaimer: I live a boring life and am unlikely to ever personally experience this issue... Just curious. :) Personally, I’ve always taken care with what I put online, aware that the whole world is (potentially) watching. So I find myself without a lot of sympathy for people who put up things that they would rather not have others read. But this does bring up a question (and forgive me if your links answered it as I’ve only read your post): what about what others post? If you attend a party and maybe drink a little too much and pictures of it get posted by others, what then? Is it fair to expect people to be 100% sqeaky clean all of the time because of their profession? (Outside of nuns, I suppose. ;) ) Should employers look at pages belonging to an applicant’s friends? Where does the line get drawn?

Michelle

Disclaimer: I live a boring life and am unlikely to ever personally experience this issue… Just curious. :)

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