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Total linkbait title, real story clears it up a bit:

"Hester was using Facebook . . . She jokingly posted a picture of a co-worker’s pants around her ankles and a pair of shoes, with the caption “Thinking of you.”"

I would be concerned too as a parent if a teacher's aid did that, and really if you have so little self-awareness that a public FB posting like that could get you in trouble you don't deserve to be employed around my kids.

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"I would be concerned too as a parent if a teacher's aid did that" How is that concerning? If she'd posted a picture of herself executing kittens, or planning a series of gruesome murders, yes, sure, that's concerning. But a pictures of pants and ankles? How is that something to be concerned about? Or are you saying that you don't think that's anything to worry about, but you only want your children to be near adults who spend their lives in some kind of insane fearful paranoia? If that IS what you want, what's wrong with YOU? What kind of people would your children turn into if every adult they ever met was a terrified paranoic?

The keywords are "co-worker" and "public" post(as "visible to co-workers and student parents) here. As much as I dislike violation of privacy by employers as parent I'd be concerned about this.

A "public FB posting"?

If it was so public, why did the school administrator find it necessary to demand her password and invade her personal privacy?

The real story is about how this district handled the situation. These situations can be handled quite effectively without demanding anyone's password. The person who receives the picture needs to show it, not the person accused of posting it.

You don't know what the picture actually looks like and also why would you even be looking at a teacher's aide's facebook? Don't these parents have better things to do and complain about. Waste of time.

Don't these parents have better things to do and complain about.

In the US, school administrators yield to every single one of the parents' whims because they fear lawsuits. It's a vicious cycle— parents feel more and more entitled to complain and make demands to the school, and administrators have to indulge them more and more. It's a sad mess.

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