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Wait, who adds their teacher on Facebook in the first place?
Hey rei,
I teach at a local community college (in more of a continuing education capacity – emt classes.)
I often friend my students (at their requests, not the other way around) so they can get to know me a little better. It helps for some of them to see that I’ve done the job I’m training them to do. I NEVER post anything about students or class. Facebook also allows me to stay in touch with a lot of them, and answer questions when they’re out in the ”real world.”
However, in my mind highschool students should not be friending teachers. Hell, some college students shouldn’t be either. It really seems to boil down to personal responsibility.
I have one that I friended because he was so beyond awesome I wanted to keep up with him after I graduated. There are other teachers I wish I could add, but they won’t join up.
Not everyone hates school and thinks teachers are squares!
Wait, aren’t professors and teachers not allowed to Facebook friend their students? Or is it different for college?
College has no student – teacher boundaries. They can date if they want. But this seems HS so it may be illegal.
Maybe not, some seniors are 18
still not in hs.
obv they aren’t friends with each other they have a mutual friend both with the ability to write on his status
I like this commenter because he has common sense.
except that it is her status so they must obviously be friends
disregard that she wrote on his page, not a status
I agree totally. Helps that “jessica” is talking to mark, so must be on his page….
I think she’s a senior in HIGH SCHOOL, not college. Meaning UNDERAGE.
It depends on the state though. In Indiana where I am, the age of consent is 16.
Mark could be a younger brother to Cameron. Cameron could be 24-26 years old and Mark could be 19 – 20 years old. If she was 17, that would not be that odd of an age spread.
Not to mention that its not unheard of for seniors to be 18. I, personally, started kindergarden a year late and had a may birthday so I turned 19 shortly after graduating high school
How could you be a senior and still be underage?
Er, we don’t actually know that this is a college interaction.
Yeah, they definitely don’t call it “social studies” in college
Also, I don’t think that the teacher/student are facebook friends, just mutual friends of good ol’ Mark here.
Yes, given the way the girl writes and the fact the class is called “Social Studies”, it seems safe to assume it’s high school. It seems pretty clear what’s going on here: girl leaves note on boyfriend’s page, boyfriend happens to be friends with her teacher, teacher comments. The teacher needn’t have friended the girl, since it’s on their mutual friend’s page.
It could just be one of her mates.
I am assuming that the girl posted that on her boyfriend’s wall, who just so happened to be friends with her HIGH SCHOOL teacher, who could also post on his wall. Also, teachers and professors friend their students all the time.
I don’t know, I know quite a few teachers and professors on Facebook (from high school and college) that have friended their current and past students (including me). It’s different between states, I suppose.
it looks like the teacher isn’t friends with his student – he’s friends with the student’s boyfriend. since she commented on her boyfriend’s status (a mutual friend), he was able to see her post and respond back
They don’t have to be friends, if they both have Mark as a friend, both can see what is written on his wall. From the look of it, I doubt they are Facebook-friends with each other.
She’s in highschool and the teacher is on her boyfriend’s page. Nothing is illegal about that part because it sounds as if the boyfriend is a bit older than she is.
And this is how teachers get fired these days.
How would this get the teacher fired?
The teacher isn’t the one dating the student O_o
Rawrii… You’re really not getting it.
The girl is dating Mark. Mark’s friend is Cameron, a high school teacher, and the girl is in his class. So, Cameron tells his friend that he’s dating a high school chick. And then, without even trying to deny it, she backs it up by calling Cameron “Mr. R—-”, implying that he is actually her teacher.
Nobody is friends with any of their students. One guy is friends with – and is dating – a girl who is a student of his friend.
Errr, are you addressing someone else? I got it the first time. [Roarry isn't the same person as me, if that's what you're thinking]
Doesn’t sound like she’s a college student, darlin’..
it is allowed, but it isn’t reccomended, likewise you shouldn’t befriend your boss at work either.
hahaha my whole place of business are all friended to each other. You get more grief if you dont because it looks like you are hiding something!
Not a problem for me because I don’t post anything to get me in trouble. Unlike a couple of dozy coworkers…
@rawrii First, in college you usually don’t call your instructors “Mister.” Second, most colleges don’t have “Social Studies.”
Rawrii, Seriously? … There aren’t any rules in college as far as facebook; it was started as an application for students in various classes to keep up with notes and lectures together AND for professors to to get in the mix as well but turned out to be the best social networking platform ever. I bet you’re 15 and don’t even know that fb started ; in 2004 and for about 6
months you couldn’t even be connected to your friends at other schools.
But I digress – it seems that in this conversation Cameron and Mark are friends or related, that Mark is somewhat older than Stephanie and that Cameron is a high school teacher of Stephanie; while there may be a handful of laws that will prevent Stephanie and Cameron from being “friends”, if C and M are friends, and M writes something on S’s wall, it will show up on any and everyones newsfeed who is a “friend” of either S and M, which is how C saw the original conversation. Let this be a lesson on why you should change your privacy settings.
Actually it was started by some guys looking for tail under the cover of sharing notes.
It looks like this teacher and student have a mutual friend, both posting on that friend’s wall.
But this would be a lil bit different than just Facebook friend .. Note the 3 first comments
He’s not friended the student, just replied to her message. The girl wrote on Mark’s wall. Plus I suspect he’s refering to a high school student
I’m friends on Facebook with some of my high school teachers, and I’m still in high school. It’s a great way for us students to stay informed about assignments and also to contact the teacher quickly when necessary. Most teachers have a separate account for students that they use to post important class information.
I’m thinking the teacher is friends with the guy and just happened to see he commented. (Or would he still be able to comment? Not sure.) A friend of mine is a HS teacher, though, and I think he has some of his students Friended… Probably depends on the rules at your school.
I highly doubt its college…Im pretty sure its high school and shes yelling at her teacher.
I think this is more of a “high school classmates” type of thing. Someone being in your class doesn’t have to mean you’re teaching it.
It does when they call you “Mr. R___”
But she calls him “Mr. R” why would she call a fellow student Mr.? I think that’s her teacher.
in stephanie’s comment she refers to Cameron RXXXXX as Mr. RXXXXX i don’t think kids call their classmates by Mr., Mrs. or Ms. Of course it has been quite sometime since i was in high school.
I doubt a teacher would use the term “bro”. It looks more like a fake
A teacher would use the term “bro” when talking to a friend. The teacher could be in his mid-20s.
I was having dinner in a pub where there was a teacher at the other table in his early 30s/late 20s. Not only did he use slang like “bro” he cursed like a sailor. And he was an elementary school teacher.
Why did she call him “Mr.” then ?
Except for her response lending us to believe he IS a teacher… “Mr. R_____”
Yeah, but she called him “Mr. R”, which implies that he’s a teacher and not another student. But from the conversation it sounds like Cameron is Mark’s (who’s presumably not another student) FB friend, not Jessica’s.
I think what happened is that Mark is dating Stephanie, and added her as a friend. He is also friends with Cameron, who happens to be a high school teacher. Apparently Stephanie is a high school student in his class, and underage – a fact which was unknown to Mark until Cameron spilled the beans – hence Stephanie’s outrage that Mr. R got all in her business.
hey i think it might be her teacher…
Point of order:
No one says that Mark has to be 18, either.
I was 17 for the first 80% of my freshman year in college. And, I know several people who graduated mid-term from high school in December, then went to college or the military in January. One of those military friends came back between Parris Island and his specialty training to his High school Prom, in his dress uniform, and it was the TEACHERS more than his ex-girlfriends, that were asking him to dance…
Plus, in many states, 16 or 17 is the age of consent, in which case the point is moot.
I think that Mark and Cameron are friends, and he’s been telling them (his friends) about a girl… who ended being an underage Cameron’s student.
Well, I am a high school English teacher, and I have about one-third of my students as friends on a facebook that I keep specifically for that purpose. I use it to peruse my students’ posts and profiles, keeping track of their cyber-lives. I’ve caught some cyber-bullying, and sent an email to a parent containing a photo of a student doing a kegstand. I view my activities on facebook as a continuation of my job, and behave accordingly. It also allows me to keep in contact with parents that don’t show at parent-teacher conferences and whom I otherwise wouldn’t meet. It is an excellent tool.
Your job is as an English teacher and not to police the lives of your students. 1) That’s creepy 2) It is, really, none of your business to keep track of them.
When I am a professor and some creepy teacher sends me a picture of my kid doing something they shouldn’t from their facebook profile I’m probably going to file a complaint with the school and have their teacher changed before I think about what I am going to do with my child.
Um, if the kids are doing something illegal and/or dangerous, then he has every single right to let the parents know. And since cyberbullying has actually led to suicides, he’s saving lives.
Frankly, I congratulate him and pray he continues doing these GOOD things.
Add to that the fact that children/teenagers should probably not even be using something like facebook, at least not until they are 16. They just don’t realize the dangers of exposing their lives so publicly and befriending strangers on the Internet.
I’m sure most teens know not to meet in real life strangers they met online, and many know better than to publicly display personal info such as their name, address and phone number, but internet predators don’t operate like what we see on “Catch a Predator” or CSI.
They don’t meet their victim 2 weeks after talking to them online for the first time. Most of them can wait several years!
And they rarely operate on those public chat rooms. Why? Because teens don’t use random public chat rooms, they use facebook, myspace, blogs, forums, MSN (I know MSN is a chat applet, but it’s not public – you can only talk to people you add to your contact list, which means you must have met them somewhere else before)…
I have younger siblings and they (as well as myself) have met and befriended many people on the internet since we had it in 2001. We never met any of them, but we know some of them since years.
My siblings are smart, they know the dangers of the Internet and how to avoid them, but I would not be surprised if one day they decided to go out for a drink with a guy they’ve been friends with for 3 years on the web.
The scary part is I would probably not even tell them it’s a bad idea, because a guy you have played video games with every day for the past 3 years doesn’t sound like a threat to me.
But it could turn out they’re meeting a guy who’s older than he claimed and who waited 3 years to gain their trust in order to finally meet them and hurt them.
Parents letting their children surf the web without any supervision is what’s creepy. Keeping an eye on the cyberlife of teens when they should not even have one to begin with is not.
It’s true many parents today want school to do most of their children’s education (the rest of it, they want their children to do it themselves). Well this teacher understands that and adapted his/her job to fit this situation.
If you don’t want teachers to start supervising your kids at home, then do your part as a parent in their education. It’s hard for good teachers not to care about their students beyond their marks at school…
Has any parent here recently looked at what kind of cartoons their children are exposed to on TV? Cartoon Network is one example that comes to mind when I think of a channel feeding kids stupid and sometimes obscene cartoons.
Has any of you opened recently one of the magazine’s your 12 or 14 year-old daughter reads? Do it, and look for content that sexualizes your child (i.e. tries to make them somehow sexually active).
Look for articles talking about “love” and “crushes” among kids (which is harmless and normal), but featuring pictures of adult men.
Look at the poses, clothes and makeup of children on the pictures. Look for articles about your child’s favorite stars and notice how their idol, their role model, is lightly/provocatively dressed on some pictures. I once found a magazine self-proclaimed as a people magazine for children and teenagers which featured, every month, short interviews of stars in which they were asked details about the first time they made love.
(Alternatively, do a search for “corporate pedophilia” on google and you will discover how the media can and does sexualize kids).
Well, if you did not know (your) children are exposed to this stuff, how do you know what they do on facebook? Thank god teachers take the initiative to step out of their role to help parents!
Your post has now been submitted to emailsfromcrazypeople.com. Thanks for playing.
Dammit, you beat me to it.
Its not that serious, it just failbook….. get a life.
Not to mention that if they are stupid enough to post stuff like that when they have a teacher friended, then they deserve to get ratted out.
Aside from that, Facebook has a utility that allows you to specify who can and cannot see particular posts, even among your friends. Said students could have made sure Teacher didn’t see the incriminating posts, but clearly were not bright enough to think of that. Therefore they deserve to get ‘schooled’. RTFM.
Well, how awfully responsible of you to first complain to the school about the inappropriate and possibly dangerous activities of your child, without first talking to your CHILD. Way to not be an actual parent, therefore contributing to the decline of society.
There is nothing wrong with what he is doing. Facebook is not a private site. Anyone can access the information, photos, etc., which is why users should be careful what they post. Job seekers have been denied jobs because of the stupid things they post on Facebook, thinking no one will see it.
Please, refrain from reproducing. There are far too many neglected child-animals running around destroying civilization.
Not to mention, the students don’t have to add their teacher to their friends list.
If the teacher were forcing the students to add him, then that would be a problem, but I didn’t hear him say that he was making it mandatory for them to add him.
You mean you cyberstalk your students facebook profiles on your free time as a teacher?
Ok… so let me get this straight. As a teacher, after work, after dealing with 8 hours of being surrounded by teenagers. You go back to your house, boot up your computer and start looking at pictures of 16 year old boys and girls, while you probably sip a glass of wine and listen to “Pop Goes The Weasel the Ice Cream Truck Version” on a loop, in a candlelit room in a basement, without your pants on. Your free hand when not handling the wine glass is placed on a small patch of rabbit fur you keep next to your keyboard, you gently stroke it whenever you’re looking at pictures of kids.
You then take note of what they are doing, carefully jotting down their every move inside a small black book you carry around everywhere. You take an interest in the type of music they like, the books they read, the TV shows they watch, their inside jokes. That way you can be the “cool/hip” professor they feel comfortable enough around. You high five them when you’re walking in the hall, and occasionally if nobody is watching you might smell Tommy’s hair when he’s entering the classroom and you’re keeping the door open.
Is that how it goes? That’s it isn’t it? Please tell me the high school you work at so I NEVER send my kid there?
Jesus Christ dude… YOU are one of the creepiest dudes I ever met online. Job well done, too bad you don’t get a medal. If I ever see a creeper like you “following up” on my kid online as a teacher, I’ll make sure you understand your place. You’re a TEACHER not their parent. THEY are responsible for their kid’s personal life, not you… you freak. Get your own life.
Hmm, here in Florida at least teachers are not even supposed to have a public myspace or facebook account.
actually I was a tutor at a school here in florida and almost ALL of the teachers there had a facebook. Technically the state cant say that teachers (or anyone) isnt ALLOWED to have something like faceboook or myspace.
from the looks of things Mark didn’t know she was in high school when he started dating her, she probably looks older then she is.
So her teacher dropped a bomb on both of them, she get embarrassed by her teacher and Mark gets to feel like he attracts jailbait
ummm….but it is still plosable that she is 18 in high school, so no legality there just moral fiber…
Look, the teacher and Stephanie could both be mutual friends of mark here, which would let him post on her status anyways. It seems like most of the people here arguing against this probably don’t even have a Facebook anyways.
How about this: Is it funny? Did it make you laugh? Who the hell cares if it’s fake or not? Half the ones up here are blindingly fake. Still funny. You people read too much into it. Laugh or don’t. Boom. End.
I am a teacher and yes teachers can add their students on Facebook. A lot of teachers use Facebook as a means to promote clubs and activities at their place of employment. The teachers who would prefer not to add their students just tell them at the beginning of the year and students who don’t want their teachers to know what they are up to don’t request their teachers. There is not a law about “friending” a teacher. Also, there is a good chance that this teacher knows this student outside of school given the comment. If the student didn’t want to have this teacher or whoever seeing what they write then they shouldn’t have added him. The only thing kids need to watch out for is they can get into trouble with the law if they have pictures on their Facebook for doing things that are illegal for minors to do.
Can one more person please explain
1- How we know it’s a high school,
2- Why we don’t know they’re Facebook friends directly, and
3- Why it might not be illegal?
I don’t think we covered those topics sufficiently.
Ok soooo It first of all it might not be high school, he said senior and not 12 grade, so she could be either in high school or college. And they do have social studies in college, they sure do at my school. They might just be mutual friends to Mark and cameron(his facebook friend) saw that stephenie saw she wrote on his wall. And even if steph and cam were friends on facebok, big deal. By the way if steph was a senior in high school, she could be 18 and thats legal, and if she was 17 in my state she would also be legal. Common sense. UGh!! And to the ppl in the mid of this page with the long paragraphs, stop turing funny things in to something serious, ITS FAILBOOK DAMNIT!!!!
bet jessica is secretly pissed about highschool chick moving in on mark boy