NY Teachers Fired for Inappropriate Facebooking
The New York Department of Education has reportedly sacked three teachers for inappropriate Facebooking.
Facebook used to be a site just for college kids. However, it wasn't long before the social network opened up membership to everyone. Now people are using it to spy on their exes, kids are dealing with their parents commenting on their walls, and bosses are monitoring what employees are doing on days they're not at work. Apparently teachers in the New York district are using it to talk to their students and it's causing problems with the Department of Education.
According to the New York Post the Department of Education in New York City has fired three teachers in the last six months for acting inappropriately towards students on Facebook. One teacher, former Bronx teacher, Chadwin Reynolds, is said to have "friended" about six female students. He wrote comments like, "This is sexy," under some of their photos and asked one girl for her phone number. He is said to have sent flowers, candy and a stuffed animal in an attempt to secure a date.
Reynolds told the Post that the case was thrown out and that the allegations are untrue. "It's not true. The Board of Ed found that the claims were not valid," he's quoted as saying. However, the Post goes on to report that the Board of Education confirmed that the social networking scandal was the reason he was fired.
A second teacher, this one from Long Island City, Queens, was fired for posting a picture of her kissing a former student to her Facebook page. It later emerged that Laurie Hirsch, a 30-year-old former paraprofessional at Bryant HS in Long Island City, had had sex with the student about 10 times in her apartment. A probe by the Office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation revealed that the two had made contact via phone 2,700 times over a six-month period. Hirsch said that she had been suspended indefinitely for using her cell phone too much during school hours. She told the Post that it didn't look like she was going to get her job back and that it was during this suspension that the relationship with her former student began. She also noted that the student was no longer attending the school when the relationship began.
Though it's not clear if either Hirsch or Reynolds have had their teaching privileges revoked, one Manhattan substitute teacher by the name of Stephen D'Andrilli has been banned from subbing ever again for his behavior on Facebook. He is said to have "friended" several female students at Essex Street Academy on Facebook and sent them inappropriate messages. D'Andrilli commented on one girl's photo that her boyfriend "boyfriend [did not] deserve a beautiful girl like you," and messaged another girl to tell her she was pretty and that he had tried to visit her during one of her weekend classes. The New York Post writes that a fourth teacher, who has not been disciplined, was found to be giving extra credit to students who befriended him on Facebook.
Do you think there should be a policy in place preventing this kind of teacher-student communication on social networks? Let us know in the comments below!
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Sorry, was there an article there?
I couldn't see too much of it.
Americans? Chill, alright. It's just sex.
I remember back in my school the teachers were warned by the city school board not to use social networking sites with students.
I wish my junior high teacher (who looks like the one in the photo) would've befriended and.... Too bad most people never heard of internet when I was in junior high.
Lol this is almost an awesome article.
Facebook makes people stupid.
I love reading articles like this, more teaching positions open up for me to apply to.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Goofs
Sorry, was there an article there?I couldn't see too much of it.
As a returning student and future teacher (within 2 years), Social networking in one way or another is already part of most school systems that can afford enough computers. My teacher education program consists of a large group of students advancing at once, and facebook is the best way to communicate as a group with each other. The difference is that between teachers and students, the communication must be set up such that all contact is open to parents and supervisors to view. Facebook is not ideal for this purpose, but other dedicated social sites are around for this purpose and students do benefit educationally due to more access to teachers (for educational purposes only, obviously).
Why do people have to be so selfish? Two of the teachers there were WAY out of bounds, as for the second one, I don't know what to think, not enough detail.
I don't see what the issue was with the second teacher. So the student is no longer a student and the teacher had a relationship with them. How is that cause for termination? Also this article doesn't say if they are high school students or not. I am assuming they are.
"Do you think there should be a policy in place preventing this kind of teacher-student communication on social networks?"
Pretty sure most schools have policies about teachers hitting on students through any medium.
where were all these hot teachers having sex with kids when i was in school
I'm a teacher and I won't do it. Lots of teachers do but I just want to keep a buffer between me and my students, and it's bad enough already that I've lost a lot of privacy within my family and people I barely know.
Americans? Chill, alright. It's just sex.
It always comes down to this. We really need to reform the way we're allowed to express ourselves in this country. Whether we like it or not, the sex undertone is always there, we just choose to ignore it or doll it up.
I have no problem with teachers using social networking sites, it just comes to using them responsibly. For me I do not use my real name on Facebook because I think it is far too insecure to give the general public that info to go along with other information.
As for 2real's comment, the teacher's having sex with students were out there back then. But news didn't travel as far or fast so it was easily overlooked elsewhere.
It's a really funny thing, aren't teacher allowed in our society, I thought they were people too. As long as pupils don't manipulate teachers into giving them better grades and teachers don't take offense based on denial in a friends list , I really don't see anything wrong with the whole system.
A social network is like a Sunday shopping trip to the local mart, you meet the entire community there..... but they don't end up banning people from schools if they shared a coffee at the mart do they???
Americans? Chill, alright. It's just sex.
Europeans chill, alright. It's just violence.
In the cases in the article clearly the teachers were in the wrong.
However it's not surprising nor is it really a big deal.
Just discipline those who go to far and move on.
OK Stories like this are like old news. Since like yahoo had this problem. I'm sure some other social network media like oh i don't know, IRC. Now can we get some tech news. Please.
Facebook+Teachers=sex
I thought that I would be annoyed reading the article title, but some of these teachers seem really creepy
Why do people have to be so selfish? Two of the teachers there were WAY out of bounds, as for the second one, I don't know what to think, not enough detail.
first teacher, if what he did was all a lie, i can imagine a female student talking about it, making crap up, and than he got screwed for it. where i went to school, one of out male teachers looked like an athlete, and this was a normal teacher in his 20's now a pe or other teacher.
the female teacher, with a former student implies that they either graduated, or dropped out, and if thats the case, than who cares (laws of age and consent not taken into account)
the third one was a substatue teacher, for what i will assume is hitting on 18+ students. all a sub does is watch the class and vaugely teach it if they can. they have no real possission of power, so i see no real problem with what he did.
and as for the extra credit, i had teachers do stupid extra credit things like that all the time. nothing bad was posted about him yet.
One hurts people, the other gives them pleasure.
Think I'll choose the European view thanks - you're welcome to the pain yourself.
*south park cop voice* ...niccccce! /thumbs up
One hurts people, the other gives them pleasure.Think I'll choose the European view thanks - you're welcome to the pain yourself.
How bout both combined? What fun is sex with out a little pain? This Americans view!
That's 15 times a day. That's insane! I would have been tired of her after 2 days.
Is that really a problem? I mean, sure it's innapropriate, but is it new? before social networkings, how were teachers hitting on students? Winks in class? Little paper notes in homeworks corrections? The "may I see you after class" cliché?
New times. New tricks. Same game.
Americans? Chill, alright. It's just sex.
When it's your son or daughter, I'll chill; when it's mine I'll do wtf it takes to prevent them from being approached by pervs and creeps.
These losers are incapable of finding someone of there own age or intellect because they are too oversexed and immature. They have no place in our school systems. I wan't mature, responsible adults teaching my child. "it's just sex"....How would you fill if your 17 year old daughter had a 25 year old teacher trying to get in her panties? evidently you have no children.
Don't friend your students
Its not that hard.
I've worked @ a summer camp. I never friended the campers. Thats just weird.
Honestly if it is on facebook atleast there is a record of it. I view facebook as a public forum and there shouldn't be any rules about it as long as its done on your own time.
The NY teacher union I am surpised isn't noted in this article. I know that once your hired in the union you basically can do anything you want and have lawyers to support you no mater stupid you are. I personally wish I do more as a parent about this crappy teachers.