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Lewd teacher's Facebook shocks schoolchildren

by sweet east pearl | August 14, 2008 at 01:45 am

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DOZENS of students as young as 11 stumbled across steamy images of their male teacher during an innocent web search.

The teacher's Facebook site carried an image of a hand down the front of one man's pants and a link inviting users to suck the teacher's "lollipop", according to a witness.

Parents who complained to the school said the principal blamed them for the children's shock find.

The Department of Education is being urged to warn teachers against posting lewd images of themselves online.

The furore is the latest in a string of cases that test the boundaries between teachers' classroom roles and their private lives.

Child protection advocate Bernadette McMenamin said students entered their teacher's name into a search engine and clicked on the results - a Facebook page.

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sweet east pearl

at 01:53 on August 14th, 2008

Children should not be seeing raunchy photos of their teachers, but teachers are allowed to have a life as well. Their lives do not revolve around their classroom. Perhaps all people who are in a position that their social lives may have an effect on their work lives should ponder the use of the privacy restrictions that are available on sites such as facebook.

jordan

at 04:24 on August 14th, 2008

I agree that teachers can- and should- have private lives, but, knowing how web-savvy kids are, teachers should know by now about Facebook's privacy settings, so their photos are invisible to search engines.