What do you do when a student sends a friend request on myspace?

Sounds like these kids already see you as a role model. It probably wouldn't be a good idea to accept them as friends due to an ongoing investigation into myspace users with underage friends, but I would explain this to your students before you deny them. It sounds like they look up to you and you wouldn't want to destroy a positive role model in their lives would you?

I wouldn't accept their requests. I don't know if there's an option to send a message with your rejection (I don't get many friends requests, lol), but I would send them a nice note telling them that you appreciate the gesture but aren't accepting students as friends on myspace. Or you could change the information on your page so that your students don't realize it's you. With all the media attention myspace gets, it's better to be safe than sorry. There are actually classes for parents about myspace so that they can have a better understanding of what their kids are getting into. If I were a parent attending one of these classes, I certainly wouldn't want to see my child's teacher on their friend list.

I would say that it's probably inappropriate. There may be absolutely nothing wrong with it, but in the environment that we have in education today, it would be better to be safe than sorry and keep the boundaries in place. It's too easy for students to misinterpret or for things to get inappropriate online. Not to mention if a student has a vendetta against you, it would be easy enough to take an email or message from you and alter it. I would just tell the students politely that you don't accept invitations from students.

I am student teaching and I have my Myspace profile on private. I also changed the name so students cannot find me if they search for my name. I would suggest you do the same.

I would say it is inappropriate to accept their friend requests. You are their teacher, not their friend.

I understand that they need people as role models. i would explain to them that the reason you are not accepting their requests is because if you huys get caught. I would tell them though htat if they need to talk, they are welcomed to set up an appointment to have a one on one talk with you. I would not accept for the main reason that if something is said there is no proof that it did not involve you.

We had a pair of the 'cool' instructors who have been on fb, who might settle for us if we extra them. there is not any quite rule everywhere that announces instructors won't be able to, even though it blurs the 'accountability of care' - the sturdy notice on their place that announces they seem to be a dad or mum of their pupils. the glaring occasion while this gets broken is pupils fancying/dating and so on. instructors, and then the pupil gets in difficulty, instructor gets fired, and so on. Now i'm no longer asserting this might take place - yet while they are asserting no, they're frequently in basic terms conserving themselves. It in basic terms takes one indignant pupil, gets a bad mark or some thing, to declare for revenge that a instructor flirted with them over fb, and it makes their existence hell, public enquiries, firings, in basic terms all is going incorrect. So it is greater secure for many instructors to easily say no, and shop their coaching place and private existence separate; then as quickly as you have left, you're no longer in touch of their coaching place from now on, and that they upload you. a number of them will, yet there's a threat in touch for them, and you wish they understand what they're doing.

I dont think you should accept their request just because they can lose that teacher-student respect.......well.........a little more. But if they were once your student and you're not anymore, and R of age, then accept them.

My principal would say, "If you have to to ask, then you know there is some questionable thing...therefore the answer is, no," I would also explain to the class, because you know more than one is going to invite you, Ask them if they really want you to know about eveything on their myspace page.

if they are under 18, dont do it because it creates a potential compromise in your relationship with them. also, i recently heard that people are currently monitoring myspace for adults with underage friends.

I don't think their requests are appropriate.