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Nov-5 4:40 pm

The other discussion reminded me of a situation my friend ran into last year.

There's a teacher (Ms. D) at the high school one son attends, and the other son had just graduated from. Ms. D is pretty and a popular grade 12 teacher. She's 24 and it is her second year teaching. She has a rule that she will not add any students on Facebook until they have graduated.

My friend's son had just graduated and added her on Facebook. Her profile includes pictures of her drinking and going to clubs/bars, but she does not appear excessive, drunk or inappropriate (in action or dress) in any of the photos, nor do her friends. She also appears to be of age in all the photos (drinking age is 19 here). My friends still thought it was horribly inappropriate for a teacher to have photos consuming any alcohol or going out, thought it set a bad example and wanted to complain to the principal because her younger son still attends.

I was of the opinion that 1) anyone viewing is a former student, and now an adult- most with less than a year before they can legally drink anyway and 2) drinking, going to bars and clubs is pretty normal for young adults, and I don't see going to them as setting a bad example. My daughter is applying to medical schools and I know she responsibly engages in these activities, so I'm not sure how they make someone such a bad person or example.

WWYD? Do you think it's inappropriate for a teacher to have such photos, even though there's no current students viewing them?

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Nov-6 6:45 am

On the one hand, teachers are held to a higher standard than the rest of the world, BUT if her pictures show nothing inappropriate or excessive, just that she goes out and has a good time with her friends, I don't see it as a problem. Teachers might be held to a higher standard, but they're people too, and one cannot expect them to live like hermits with no social life either. Drinking, in and of itself is not a bad thing - it's drinking to excess and doing stupid things that makes it bad. If she were friending current students, I'd have an issue with it, but if she's friending only past or non-students it really isn't anyone's business. However, she is taking a risk with her professional reputation by putting those pictures out there, because nothing on the internet is truly private, and there's always that one person out there who has deemed him/herself the "booze police" and is totally anti-drinking, anti-partying who could make her life difficult for her. Personally, in her position I wouldn't have those pictures out there, but I also wouldn't condemn her for it.

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Nov-6 7:32 am

My aunt has that attitude. She gives my uncle (who is not a high school teacher but teaches at a tech school) a dirty look or a comment every time he has *A* beer when we are camping, etc because he was supposed to be setting a good example for his sons.

I think showing responsible drinking IS setting a good example, and I think we are all just too up in each other's business nowadays.