http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4791295
I thought that this article was very interesting and relevant to education today. With information being as available as you want it to be on the internet there if very little privacy anymore. Teachers need to be extremely careful with they way in which the depict themselves online.
I thought that it was interesting that in this particular case the woman was denied her credentials by the university she was attending. When I had seem on another student's post that the teacher had been denied a job because of a photo online I had assumed that it was a school that she was applying to for a job that had rejected her. Is it for the university awarding the credentials to decide that because of these photos that this person is unfit to teach anyway? I guess in this case it is. I am curious though to know if the university had awarded her the credentials if the picture would have resurfaced when the woman began applying for specific jobs.
Overall this was a "eye opening" article that shows that aspiring teachers need to be very consciencious of the way that they are representing themselves on the internet.
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Great thoughts, John.
Today's culture provides excellent technological advances, but it is also tougher when it comes to these issues of Internet and public safety.
Thanks for posting!
Unfortunately there are people who tend to forget that they do in fact represent a particular school or district even when they are not in the work place / school. Especially when hired, a district has put their confidence in you as an employee where they expect you to act accordingly. At the same time it is a same when hard work is overshadowed because of circumstances such as those.
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