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(FOX23) — A Tulsa teacher is trying to teach her students a tough life lesson about Facebook in the classroom, so they don’t have to endure the consquences later in life.
Melissa Bour told FOX23 her students only learned a few days ago what you post online can and likely will live forever on the Internet.
“I had students respond with ‘It’s no big deal’ and ‘nobody really cares’, and I care. I care very much about their reputations,” said the Emerson Elementary 6th grade teacher.
She is describing a recent incident in which she friended one of her students, and while she was going through that student’s page, she noticed many students in her class were posing and posting selfies on the social network where they were wearing skimpy clothing and also flipping the middle finger toward the camera.
After failing to convince her class verbally of the dangers of posting revealing photos of yourself online, Bour took to social media with a letter:
