What do people think about teachers reading blogs written by students?

Asked By: BekkiC 16-17, F 2 years ago

thank you for all the replies so far, the situation at the school is our head teacher's 'feathers have been ruffled' by a few students and teachers because of political activities we have been engaging in OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL HOURS. It's not like anything we are doing is criminal but it is enough to annoy her because she doesn't agree with what we are doing even though it IS a good cause that she purely just doesn't agree with lol. SO she has been trying to find evidence against us so she can set senior members of staff to give us (students and teachers) warnings...quite petty really! Sorry it's so cryptic but i don't want to give too many details lol

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Posted by towhead2 May 25th, 2011 at 12:37PM

creeeeeepy.

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Posted by WINDY1932 Mar 3rd, 2011 at 2:25PM

i think its none of the teachers business at all. My question is why are the teachers doing this after hours? could it be slander? i would take this problem to the principle. hummmmmm

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Reply by BekkiC Mar 3rd, 2011 at 2:25PM

I know, surley they have better things to do than locating students blogs and reading them! Problem is it IS the headteacher (principle) who's been reading it + she's got quite a few of the senior staff on 'her side', so the furthest we can take it is the standard teachers who are on our side. The teachers are now planing to strike for various reasons but it's all down to us having a small scale dictatorship in our school. It's absolutely stupid, schools are meant to be about educating, but it's gone way past that at our school!
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Posted by DNewGuy Mar 2nd, 2011 at 10:16PM

How else will they know who to pass of fail.

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Posted by Tsunami3 Mar 2nd, 2011 at 2:31PM

I guess it is a good thing if teachers take an interest in their students, if they can do so without interfering with their personal lives. Parents should be doing it but aren't.

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Posted by B3lla01 Mar 2nd, 2011 at 10:18PM

If you do it outside of school hours, can you do it outside of the school as well? If parents are okay with this activity and it is off school grounds, then she's crossing the line.

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Posted by ChipmunkErnie Mar 2nd, 2011 at 3:35PM

Considering the use some students have put blogs to -- posting lies about teachers, accusations, home addresses and phone numbers, etc, etc. -- it's total intelligent self-protection on the teachers' part.

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Posted by onlygodjudgeme Mar 2nd, 2011 at 2:27PM

Seems nothing wrong with that. If a school does a good job, I don't see why a student would have anything embarrassing on his/her blog. If a school is NOT doing a good job, hopefully student blogs will reflect that and thus, teachers may get a hint!

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Posted by RogerThompson Mar 2nd, 2011 at 2:23PM

social media is about sharing so there is always (or should be a measure of censorship). However I don't think people would agree to share EP profiles as this is conisdered a private relm just like reading a diary.
On the other hand there is a responsibility that is put on anyone opening a diary if handled properly it can be a good thing but the risks of mishandlign it is very high.

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Posted by Barbara726 Mar 2nd, 2011 at 2:19PM

That they are probably telling the truth. Principals will not back up teachers. Espicially if the teacher is "SOMEBODY".

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Posted by takethesebrokenwings Mar 2nd, 2011 at 2:07PM

I had my kids on facebook (when I had facebook). It wasn't too horrid. I had to tame my facebook a fair bit, but policing what my friends from university would write on my wall was impossible. Plus, I really had a hard time reading about the torture teen romances in my news feed. I don't need to know who is sleeping with who... Sometimes a little separation is nice. Kudos to a teacher who cares enough about her students as individuals to try to get to know them on a one on one level though! That takes an incredible amount of patience and understanding.

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