In the last few years, public school teachers have been under a lot of unfair microscopes being examined with untrained eyes and arraigned in courts of public opinions by “experts” who received their credentials from social media and Google.

We have gone from Common Core to Critical Race Theory to Book Bans to “Wokeism” to Cancel Culture.

And that’s just some of them.

Add in some Parents’ Bill of Rights and the call to list every book on a classroom bookshelf for all to see, it is not hard to see why vacancies still loom large in public school positions.

If you are a teacher in a public school, please know that your social media accounts are probably under more scrutiny than someone in the private sector. You already work in a highly politicized field in a highly polarized society. That is not to tell you that you should change what you post or post about, but if your accounts are public, then you must understand that what you post can be seen by anyone.

Paul Garber of WFDD (NPR) recently interviewed a lawyer for the ACLU here in North Carolina about free speech rights and how they work in a Right to Work state such as North Carolina.

It was very informative and every public sector employee (teachers/educators/admin) should be very cognizant of what First Amendment rights mean.

Lots of food for thought there. And plenty of leftovers to munch on for days.