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I keep telling young teachers that social media can be a career killer. This guy used his school email address, of all idiotic things, to create the duplicate account, so the district does have standing in, shall we say, encouraging his resignation.
I am troubled by the reporting mother's response, to me she seems to be on a vendetta against the guy. I know a lot of teachers that have a Facebook page or twitter account page that the general public, including students and school officials, can see and a duplicate account under a fictitious name that operates as their real social media, so I find some of the reactions that doing so automatically means he was up to no good.
Only very unprofessional people and twits use open facebook. If someone is as stupid as this person was, I sure don't want him/her teaching anyone's kids!
Only very unprofessional people and twits use open facebook. If someone is as stupid as this person was, I sure don't want him/her teaching anyone's kids!
But that's the thing, he didn't use open Facebook, he used a dummy accounts. I believe there were two and at least one utilized a district email account. What the parent is really upset about is him creating dummy accounts, the whole he used a district email is just her leverage. Is it a problem for teachers to have fake accounts?
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If the following is true, then he should've been fired, not forced to resign:
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Kennebunk resident Leslie Trentalange alerted district officials, the RSU 21 School Board, and the Kennebunk Police Department on Jan. 24 via email of Herman’s fake Facebook accounts saying, “An employee of RSU 21 at Kennebunk High School has been using his RSU 21 email account to set up fake Facebook accounts, join a local Facebook group, post insulting and inflammatory comments and ‘Facebook friend’ a number of Kennebunk minors and KHS students and parents.”
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Herman said they had been hearing through close friends on a regular basis that there were “negative, inflammatory and inaccurate discussions about both us and the theater program in these social media groups.” “So I created a fake Facebook page, a Kennebunk-looking mom, and friended people in those groups. It was the biggest mistake of my life. I was not giving a lot of thought to it,” Herman said.
He's a mentally unstable creep. Only some kind of insecure psycho would do something like this. Reminds me of when Scott Addams created multiple sock accounts to argue with people and pose as his own fans.
If the following is true, then he should've been fired, not forced to resign:
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He's a obviously some kind of creep.
Why? Should he not have been afforded the opportunity to find out what was being said and the accusations against him by anonymous posters?
The fact that they wouldn't let him into the group to respond says that either, A. the group knew that what they were posting was false, and/or B. they were also aware that the statements could be actionable by the teacher.
Why? Should he not have been afforded the opportunity to find out what was being said and the accusations against him by anonymous posters?
He wasn't just "finding out what was said about him." He was friending people under fake profiles and starting arguments with people under those fake profiles as well. There is something clearly wrong with him.
He wasn't just "finding out what was said about him." He was friending people under fake profiles and starting arguments with people under those fake profiles as well. There is something clearly wrong with him.
Yeah, protecting his reputation. I find it somewhat fascinating that no details of these argumentative posts have surfaced. One would think that the aggrieved mother would have saved some of these posts.
The whole thing smells. Small town school politics is toxic and I think this guy, and his wife, got caught up in it.
I taught for over 30 years and saw how one or two parents or community members could ruin a teacher with baseless accusations.
Parents have had vendettas against teachers and seen to it that they were removed for ages, long before social media. Imprudent use of social media just hands the people gunning for you more ammo, though. A well-liked teacher wouldn't be under any scrutiny.
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