Workers in every profession make mistakes in social media -- and get fired for them. But teachers' social media fails seem to be its own meme, as every day there seems to be another teacher making an epic gaffe on Facebook and Twitter. As educators, they are supposed to impart wisdom to their students. But when it comes to social media, at least some instructors need to head back to school.
Poring over some recent examples of teachers' social media fails, AOL Jobs compiled the top six mistakes teachers made in social media this year. Don't imagine you're exempt. These are social media mistakes no worker should make. Unless, of course, you hate your job and are looking for a second career, say, in reality TV.
1. Think you're hot? Don't tweet it.Carly McKinney, a 23-year-old math teacher at Overland High School in Aurora, Colo., had a perfectly nice job. ... until her superiors got wind of racy tweets (tweeted from @Crunk_Bear). (Her tweets have been deleted, but you can see a retweet of hers above.) They included topless and other revealing self-portraits and messages like "stay sexy ... stay high ... stay drunk," to say nothing of referring to a student as "jail bait" or saying that she was high while grading papers.
McKinney claimed that the Twitter account was a parody that she set up with friends. Students rallied to her defense. School administrators were undoubtedly laughing uproariously when they first put her on paid administrative leave and then fired her.
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