Teachers in the digital generation have to manage their online personas all the time. No one wants to lose out on a dream job over an ill-advised tweet, or a dodgy Instagram photo. There are also the pupils themselves to contend with. Disciplinary incidents involving social media in education have been on the rise. The examples that make the headlines tend to involve dubious photos, Facebook rants about students, or inappropriate communication with children, but teachers commonly get into trouble for less egregious errors in judgement. So she got called in and told to take them down. Coming straight from university into a teaching context it can be hard to adjust to the need for self-censorship. Even though Facebook allows you to control both your overall profile visibility and who sees individual posts, you still need to be careful about what you post.
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Teacher Sacked For Wearing Bikini: Other Russian Teachers Posted Photos...
We have this very conventional mindset where we believe that a teacher is always supposed to be dressed formally. Do they not have the rights to enjoy their life? One such incident has come to light where Siberian authorities sacked a school teacher for the reason being that she posted her photos wearing a bikini! A number of Russian teachers have come forward in her support and have started posting their photos in bikini. The teachers have come up with this hashtag TeachersArePeopleToo where teachers of the same school have posted more than 15, posts.
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A Utah school teacher who is a bikini model and body building competitor, says she walked into her classroom with her head held high on Wednesday, one day after school district officials apologized for mandating that she remove bikini posts from her social media pages or risk being fired. I was shocked when I was called into the office and told that my pictures were a problem. I was given three choices: I could make the posts private, take the pictures down or be fired. Recently divorced, Jensen says she started lifting weights six months ago to boost her spirits and become healthy again after months of depression. After I moved to Mount Pleasant, I decided to join the gym and work on getting fit again, physically and mentally. I found I really enjoyed it and started dedicating myself to working out, one hour a day, six days a week. For the first time in a long time, I felt good about myself. To boost her self-esteem and reward herself for her hard work, Jensen began competing in body building contests and posting pictures of herself in her bikini on social media sites. Why should it matter that I compete as a body builder in my private life?
Women support women and a true example is this being shown on social media. A Russian teacher was asked to quit because she posted pictures of herself in a bikini on her social media account. Following this, now thousands of women have joined to post their bikini pictures in support of the woman. And thanks to the power of the social media, year-old Tatiana Kuvshinnikova, who was sacked is being called back to work. Tatiana Kuvshinnikova, a fifth-grade school teacher in the city of Barnaul had posted a picture of herself in a swimming costume and a short dress. She has a hobby of winter swimming and she posted those pictures. But the school director told her she 'dressed like a prostitute' and provoked the male students to lust after her!
