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# Teacher Caught in Stupid Net Rant By Kids
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2007/06/teacher_caught_in_stupid_net_rant_by_kids/
- Published: 2007-06-30T12:35:39.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T12:05:33.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogging, don't be stupid, privacy, The Sun

Hold on to your hats. I’m going to do something I don’t often do:

[Kids See Teacher’s Blog Rant](http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007281055,00.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

Yes, I just linked to *The Sun*. Why? Because this is yet another example of people failing to understand the nature of the net – something I’ve been giving a lot of thought to over the last week, for various reasons. Publishing on the internet is not a “get out of jail card” – if anything, it’s the reverse. If you rant about your pupils to a friend in a letter, the chances are that only your friend will ever see it. If you rant about them on a web page, the chances are that your pupils will be able to track it down.

Now, there are way of posting private stuff to the net, well, *privately*. [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/) and [Vox](http://www.vox.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)*et al* have privacy features built in. Until people learn to understand this, and then start using them, then stories like this will keep bubbling up.

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