There are many situations where teachers and students communicate outside of school,and it turns into something that is inappropriate. This is very harmful not just to the victim but also harmful towards everyone around the situation. As teachers, their job is to educate and support and make sure students are safe one hundred percent of the time.
When teachers are giving out phone numbers and maybe even a reminder group chat with students to communicate with, this is putting students at risk.
And when teachers inappropriately communicate with children outside the classroom this can put the teachers careers in danger also. And this is why teachers shouldn’t even be given an opportunity to communicate with students outside of the classroom.
Roughly 20% of students experience misconduct by a teacher at some point in time during their schooling experience. So I encourage you to think to yourselves, what are we doing to prevent inappropriate situations between teachers and students?
Safety for all should be the number one concern at school and then education comes next.