A teacher getting in trouble for something having to do with Facebook?

You don't say …

According to the story I read from Caroline Moss at BusinessInsider.com, the high school teacher was fired after she refused to unfriend her student on Facebook.

Apparently, the school adopted a new social media policy in which it forbid teachers from being Facebook friends with students. The teacher here was given an ultimatum to unfriend students or lose her job.

She chose the latter.

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