{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cybertraps Podcast","title":"Social Media and the School Community Cybertraps Live 026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3373,"description":"Show outline\n If you have questions you’d like answered, please visit the Questions and Feedback page on Cybertraps.com\nThe focus today is on the interactions among adults in our school communities\nTeachers, administrators, school board members, and parents\nSocial media has altered the traditional power dynamics of the school community\nSchool Board members\n2021 CA – Entire school board resigns after swearing and joking about parents during virtual meeting “They want their babysitters back.”\n“Parents want to be home alone so that they can smoke pot.”\nProfane, threatening language against a parent who criticized her on social media\n2020 FL – School board member resigns after making racist comments on FB about Kamala Harris\n2016 VT – Burlington School Board member sharply criticized for contents of FB feed\nAdministrators\n2020 VT – Principal fired for “insanely tone-deaf” Facebook post criticizing Black Lives Matter movement Principal’s attempt to apologize not successful\n2019 NY – Superintendent resigns after wife tweets out allegations of an affair with a subordinate\n2018 TX – Superintendent resigns after writing on a public FB page that “You can’t count on a black QB” “As an educator, this experience has taught me that I still have a lot to learn,” Redden wrote to board president Ted Wiggins. “My comments were not only uninformed but also hurtful, and I understand now why they were offensive to so many people.”\nRedden said he mistakenly thought he was responding to a friend’s private message. He deleted the post, but Spring resident Matt Ericksen sent the Chronicle screenshots of the comment Monday.\n2015 LA – High school principal and her husband get backlash for posting image of them wearing their “people of Walmart” Halloween costumes Classism and racism?\nJust having fun?\nTeachers\nOne Scottish teacher’s union described the combination of smartphones and social media as “catastrophic” for its members Orwellian scrutiny\n2021 WI – High school english teacher...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-npbjlTwEpH5Ybi_ySNRhS-EfNqaI7Ep1svTppTGhLE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxNTcyLzE2ODM5/MjY0NDktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}