News Organizations are Searching Facebook for Teachers
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 7:49PM
Justin Bathon in Teacher-Rights, Technology & Internet

Charlotte is apparently going to be the leading district in the issue of teacher facebook postings and subsequent discipline. Now, in addition to the district search facebook pages of potential and current teachers, the local news entity, WCNC and the Charlotte Observer, are actively searching local teacher facebook pages and reporting their findings in the newspaper - which is leading to teachers being fired.

Rest assured, since the Charlotte Observer managed to generate news with this and get a fair amount of attention, local newspapers and TV affiliates across the country are already scanning through local teacher Facebook pages. Get ready for a lot more of these stories nationally.

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