Every professional has ever ask to himself/herself. Can a post on the Internet can be that serious to get me fired? And the answer it’s “Yes, absolutely!” I search online the ways in how an Educator can get fired if they post something wrong online.
The articles that I used for this post can be found in these links: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/facebook-firing-teacher-loses-job-commenting-students-parents/story?id=11437248 https://www.businessinsider.com/17-people-who-were-fired-for-using-facebook-2014-7#a-waitress-cant-deal-with-a-bad-tip-1
There are a lot of ways in which an Educator’s career can end because of what they post online. For example; commenting awful things online about students, parents, or anyone in general. If the school, parents, and even the students did not like about what a teacher post online, this could be enough for firing them.
Teachers and other members of the school should always be careful of the material they share and post. There had been a lot of cases in where teachers, and others business workers, had gone fired because of this issue.
Like Dylan Love wrote in his article “17 People Who Were Fired For Using Facebook”, people should know that everything they post online, eventually, it’s going to be seen and cost them something. “With the prevalence of social media, it’s getting harder and harder to separate our personal and professional lives. It’s to the point that we need to assume that almost everything we share online, even privately, will be public.”
There were a few cases in this article that might seen a little bit surprising and others disrespectful to see as the reasons they got fired. Some of them are: accused of being racist, stalking students on Facebook, posting pictures showing alcohol beverages, wanting for their students to die, etc.
This article it’s about people that got fired because of their comments on Facebook about something that bothered them, so they posted it thinking that it wouldn’t get them in trouble.
A perfect example is this case I found on an article called “Teacher Loses Job After Commenting About Students, Parents on Facebook” wrote by Ki Mae Heussner and Dalia Fahmy. In this article there is a case in which a teacher from Massachusetts.
Heussner and Fahmy started the article by giving a really good advice; “Facebook users take note: If you want to keep your job, you’re better off doing your job-related gripping offline. Massachusetts high school teacher June Talvitie-Siple learned the hard way that a Facebook wall is probably not the best place to spout off about the students and parents in her community.”
“Talvitie-Siple, a supervisor of the high school math and science program in Cohasset, Mass., was forced to resign this week after parents spotted Facebook comments she wrote describing students as “germ bags” and parents as “snobby” and “arrogant.” Two parents in the community alerted the school superintendent after noticing the posts on her Facebook wall, Talvitie-Siple said. The superintendent, who was on vacation overseas, sent an e-mailing asking her to resign.”
Clearly, this teacher should have been more careful about the stuff she says online, especially these ones that were hurtful for the parents and students involved. I think this would be good for people to know about and see the consequences of putting everything online.