Teachers fired for flirting with students on FaceBook

October 19, 2010October 18, 2010

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Bad idea: Kissing your 18-year-old former student on the lips. Worse idea: Taking a picture of it. Totally insane idea: Posting that picture to Facebook. It’s just one of the crazy stories coming out of New York City, where at least three educators in the past six months have been fired for having inappropriate student-teacher relations on the social networking site. The other two fired teachers, both male, are accused of flirting with female students via Facebook, the New York Post reports.

One allegedly wrote comments like “This is sexy” under their photos and posted ill-advised lines like, “I’m not a gynecologist, but I’ll take a look inside.” The other is accused of sending inappropriate messages, like telling one girl she was pretty and another that her “boyfriend [doesn’t] deserve a beautiful girl like you.” The Department of Education apparently doesn’t yet have an official policy in effect for student-teacher Facebook communication.

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Jess

13 years ago

See, I will be ahead of the curve when I get my credentials since I will not join the book of faces.

C.H. McDermott

13 years ago

A good policy for teachers, I think, is to NOT befriend your minor students on Facebook.

Joe (Ayatollah) Hagstrom

13 years ago

Being an ayatollah and the recognized spiritual authority on these things, I see nothing wrong with a shared kiss being posted on Facebook. It just depends on what’s being kissed.