Teachers should be banned from making social media content in schools full stop!
>Several teachers with social media followings […] have been posting videos showing them using HRI materials in the classroom, with children visible in the background.
Are the parents aware of this? Because it sounds like that alone should be very illegal if they’re not.
>One of the teacher influencers who filmed social media posts in her classroom and then posted them online, spoke in the video about how she has been using HRI’s “new, free, primary school programme which is all about horse racing”.
Why do children need to be taught about horse racing? That seems like a complete waste of time in the classroom.
How was this ever allowed to happen? Is the principal aware this is what’s going on in the classrooms of their school?
Any schools I deal with have to – or at least, they do – ask specific permission from their parents as to whether a child’s photograph can be used in the school website and/or social media accounts. Unless the teachers in question have asked and received specific permissions relating to their own private SM accounts, they could be laying themselves up for quite the legal and professional downturn.
As for private companies advertising to school kids, this is just another day at the races (no pun intended). Companies already sponsor everything from posters, window blinds, whiteboards, reading materials, charts, desks, toys, yard equipment, you name it – all with their branding plastered all over. It is a somewhat insidious step to have their message included in actual lessons though.
I can’t make sense of this. Teachers in the classroom being paid for horse racing videos? What?!
HRI getting into the kids heads from a young age
If I found out my kids where in one of those videos HRI would need more gov money because I would sue them into oblivion.
This can’t be real right?
Teaching kids about gambling? Interesting
Has the teacher in question been named anywhere?
I lived in the US for a bit, and was always stunned that you would get advertisements on radio and TV for medications.
Here, we don’t have those. But we do have gambling ads, which kind of blows my mind even more. Its shocking. Gambling is quite restricted in the states, and you would never see any ads for gambling on TV. At least not in states which did not allow gambling.
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Thought this was WWN when I saw the headline.
“Teacher influencer” is a thing now?!
Teachers should be banned from making social media content in schools full stop!
>Several teachers with social media followings […] have been posting videos showing them using HRI materials in the classroom, with children visible in the background.
Are the parents aware of this? Because it sounds like that alone should be very illegal if they’re not.
>One of the teacher influencers who filmed social media posts in her classroom and then posted them online, spoke in the video about how she has been using HRI’s “new, free, primary school programme which is all about horse racing”.
Why do children need to be taught about horse racing? That seems like a complete waste of time in the classroom.
How was this ever allowed to happen? Is the principal aware this is what’s going on in the classrooms of their school?
Any schools I deal with have to – or at least, they do – ask specific permission from their parents as to whether a child’s photograph can be used in the school website and/or social media accounts. Unless the teachers in question have asked and received specific permissions relating to their own private SM accounts, they could be laying themselves up for quite the legal and professional downturn.
As for private companies advertising to school kids, this is just another day at the races (no pun intended). Companies already sponsor everything from posters, window blinds, whiteboards, reading materials, charts, desks, toys, yard equipment, you name it – all with their branding plastered all over. It is a somewhat insidious step to have their message included in actual lessons though.
I can’t make sense of this. Teachers in the classroom being paid for horse racing videos? What?!
HRI getting into the kids heads from a young age
If I found out my kids where in one of those videos HRI would need more gov money because I would sue them into oblivion.
This can’t be real right?
Teaching kids about gambling? Interesting
Has the teacher in question been named anywhere?
I lived in the US for a bit, and was always stunned that you would get advertisements on radio and TV for medications.
Here, we don’t have those. But we do have gambling ads, which kind of blows my mind even more. Its shocking. Gambling is quite restricted in the states, and you would never see any ads for gambling on TV. At least not in states which did not allow gambling.