Charlotte teachers warned about Web use
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials have warned employees they could be fired if they make offensive posts on social networking sites such as Facebook.
The Charlotte Observer reports school officials sent a memo to more than 19,000 school employees Tuesday.
An elementary teacher was suspended last week and recommended for firing after she posted on her Facebook page that she was teaching "in the ghetto of Charlotte." Four other teachers faced milder penalties for pages that showed "poor judgment and bad taste."
Chief operating officer Hugh Hattabaugh wrote that inappropriate postings can hurt an employee's professional reputation and cost them the respect of colleagues, students and parents.
The teachers facing discipline did not use a privacy setting to block general access to their information.
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