Internit use Policies for teachers

A teacher in my building was sent home for 3 days last week with out pay for being accused of something that did not happen. So this is what happened during his prep hour he was listening to a sports pod cast of a radio show out of Chicago. He had to go make some copies and talk to another teacher about something. By the time he got back to his classroom his prep hour was done, well we all no what happens to are computer screens when we leave them for a period of time. He went to take attendance thinking that he had minimized the pod cast before he had left his room and his projector was turned on also. Well when he hit his mouse the pod cast screen came up and a student see what she thought was porn when it was just an advertisement with a lady in a bathing suit. This particular student gets on her Facebook during school hours and writes that this teacher was on a porn site when he really was not, you all know what happens when one student starts something like this.

We all no what happens next administration gets a hold of this and talked to the teacher about the incident. He told them what had happened and even told them the name of the web site URL, so they check his computer and find nothing they even check his school issued laptop and find nothing. Every thing seemed fine, until a parent calls one of the local television stations about what had happened in class. The television station called the teacher to ask him about the incident. They then call the superintend asking him questions about what happened with this particular teacher.

What does administration do send the teacher home for 3 days with out pay, instead of telling what really happened and making the student apologize as for what really happened. And by the way the student only got her computer taken away for 1 week. Today we get an e-mail from are union president informing us of internet use at school. Yes we are not supposed to check personal e-mail on school time only on are duty free lunch or before and after school. My wife will send me e-mails to my school address during the day just as many of you have sent messages to other classmates about the topic we are working on and yes I do answer them one I get a free moment during my day. And how many of you have went on a radio station and played music during class. I do now that every time I show a Youtube video I always worry about what type of advertisement will show up or what type of picture will appear on the main page.

Do you think that this teacher was treated far for something that never really happened. And by the way on my way to school one day my 16 year old daughter asked if this particular teacher was getting fired for what suppose ably had happened. Hear this teacher is in the middle school and high school students were even talking about it.