Charlotte teachers disciplined for Facebook posts
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Charlotte teachers disciplined for Facebook posts
Published: November 12, 2008
Updated: November 12, 2008
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Several teachers in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district face discipline for posting images and material on the social-networking site Facebook that school leaders find objectionable.
District spokeswoman Nora Carr told the Charlotte Observer that officials are recommending that one teacher be fired for writing that she teaches “in the most ghetto school in Charlotte.“
Other pages discovered by WCNC-TV of Charlotte included photos of female teachers in sexually suggestive poses and a black male teacher who used a racial slur to describe an activity. A special-education teacher wrote, “I hate my students!“
Carr said four teachers face unspecified discipline that is less than suspension or dismissal.
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Seriously, we are seeing more and more teachers get themselves into situations that are costing them their jobs or getting them into legal trouble. I think that this is mainly because a lot of these teachers aren’t much older than the students themselves. Teachers nowadays do not understand the influence they have on students. Teachers actions, be it on the job or off, good or bad, can have dire consequences. Teachers today walk a fine line that start in the classroom and never ends. They are not in any kind of public office and very few are celebrated…until they cross that fine line. We as a society need to understand that those wild college parties on capuses around the nation, are going to produce teachers and bring with them a false security that their private life is private, when it really is not.
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