With the responsibility to be role models to their students, teachers’ social media activities have come under scrutiny in recent years with questions arising about the apps that they should join.
Teachers can be on social media or dating apps because there is no educational law that stops them from enjoying the internet. As long as they follow the school rules regarding their conduct, professors or teachers can join any app online. However, it is not decent to join such apps to post indecent content.
This article looks into whether teachers are allowed to join social media apps such as OnlyFans, TikTok, or dating apps.
Can Teachers join TikTok?
Teachers can join TikTok if they deem it good for their own entertainment as it is their right to do so. The platform is sometimes not a distraction viewed by many but a very useful tool in helping teachers reach out to students and engage with them on a deeper and more meaningful level.
Teachers can join TikTok and use it as a way of setting up digital assignments. The idea is to utilize the app in administering assignments in a way that students relate to and can be encouraged to understand concepts.
TikTok also promotes peer-to-peer teaching. Teachers can create short videos detailing specific subjects for students to watch. This is a great concept because the video is usually straight to the point.
Also, the video can be accessed several times making it easy for students to grasp the content and revisit instructions when working on a task.
Through TikTok, teachers can enhance engagement among their students. For example, a teacher can ask students to create a short video that summarizes the key lessons learned in a particular subject.
Will a Teacher be Fired for Tiktok Content?
In any setting, employers have the mandate to fire employees for legal reasons even if it concerns their social media activity. TikTok content that is posted contrary to the rules that the school has set to govern the use of social media platforms can get you fired.
A teacher will be fired for posting TikTok if it violates the school rules, code of conduct, employment contract or professional ethics. The school will want to distance itself from such violation. Also, a TikTok video posted during class can cause trouble. Or a video violating school policy of human rights.
Employers have the right to demand your attention during school hours and evidence of social media activity during these hours can lead to warnings which if not met can lead to firing.
To add to that, Tiktok videos that are misleading about the workplace and employer can get you fired. For example, if a teacher criticizes working conditions at the school using claims that are not proven then the employer can easily fire that teacher.
Also, discriminating content can get you into trouble. For example, a racist video on TikTok or one that is critical of any minority group can get a teacher fired.
For example, a teacher can be sacked for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement in a school that is strongly opposed to racism. Another example is when a teacher criticizes a particular religion on TikTok when a school is in support of the freedom of worship.
Tiktok can be advantageous but also a menace to one’s teaching career. How you use it is all that matters.
Can Teachers join OnlyFans?
Teachers or professors can join OnlyFans app if they use it decently without violating professional ethics or code of conduct. They are within their freedom to use any online app depending on the type of content that they share on the platform. However, it is advisable for teachers to be decent when on OnlyFans.
While it is a controversial website, the site can be used for fun without any nudity.
However, since the hit of Covid-19 OnlyFans has been overly sexualized.
There is now a notion among the public that everyone with an OnlyFans account shares exclusive sexual content on the Platform.
Therefore, even if a teacher joins OnlyFans intending to share non-sexual content that one is required to subscribe to view, then the public will have a different view.
But users have become sexualized there. Just recently, a teacher in the UK had to resign after students discovered her OnlyFans page, where she had shared some nudity. This was embarrassing.
Therefore, teachers should keep off OnlyFans to protect their reputation and that of their school. This is among other methods for teachers to earn respect from students and colleagues.
Can Teachers get Fired for joining OnlyFans?
Teachers cannot get fired for joining OnlyfFans unless they use the platform to violate contractual employment contracts or the professional code of conduct for educators. It is the content a person posts that matters, not the platform. For example, a teacher will get fired for posting content that brings disrepute to the teaching profession or the school as an institution.
Also, some institutions can have regulations that prevent teachers from joining these Platforms and if they do then can lose their jobs.
Teachers are required to protect their reputation among students and the general public which sexual content on OnlyFans can easily taint. Also, teachers are required to be role models.
Therefore, creating an OnlyFans account can influence students to start too which if parents notice can recommend the termination of the teacher.
How Teachers can Use Social Media Decently
Teachers have a social life and they need to use it to enjoy life., In fact, teachers can date each other and enjoy life and post about it themselves. Therefore, they should enjoy social media.
However, teachers can utilize different social media platforms decently and enhance learning. Some of the ways to do this include:
1. Using social media pages to broadcast class updates
Teachers can create social media pages that they can use to share all class updates with students. It is a simple way to communicate with students and avoid unnecessary interactions on social media.
2. Avoid following students
Teachers should refrain from direct communication with students on social media platforms except through the school email or website.
Even if the intentions are very good, the relationship between students and teachers should be professional and not personal.
3. Being cautious of topics and people to follow
Social media has all kinds and characters of people. Teachers should always make sure that the people and topics they follow reflect their reputation and beliefs.
For example, teachers can follow their seniors and government educational sectors on social media platforms. However, following sectors that demean education and controversial topics such as racism or religious discrimination can land a teacher in trouble.
Also, it is important to be cautious about who you are following. Just because somebody has followed you, you don’t need to follow them back.
4. Limit the sharing of photos
As a teacher, you are not looking to be a social media sensation. Therefore, the sharing of pictures should be limited. Personal photos should be limited.
These include photos that may be revealing, party, and spouse/family photos. For instance, a photo of a teacher in jeans or informal clothes can remain private over that he or she is wearing official clothes.
Also, personal information such as the place you live should always be hidden.
5. Making your account private
If teachers make their accounts private, they can control whoever wants to follow them and keep any information they want to share within reach to a specific audience. Also, private accounts are less likely to be hacked and used to share malicious information.
