How can you protect the morality of teachers?

Question

Some parents talk against morality of teaches even if they are not sure such teachers are immoral. As an adminsitrator, how will you put a stop to this talk and protect your teachers?

Answer 1

If you have the power to protect their jobs, make it clear to all that accusations of immorality are nothing but slanderous gossip, and if the parents have a problem with certain teachers they need to bring actual evidence forward, not b.s.

However, it is also the administration's duty to investigate such claims to prove they are either true or false.

Answer 2

As a teacher, I can tell you that nothing will ever stop that talk. The best thing an administrator can do is to support her teachers as much as possible, to refuse to take any kind of action at all unless there's some kind of evidence, to refuse even to consider evidence if what's being alleged has no bearing on one's fitness to teach, and always to ask a parent bringing a complaint "have you talked to the teacher about this" and try to get the parent to work it out with the teacher before moving up the "chain of command".

Why is this question here?

Answer 3

A slander suit or two will get the word around quickly. There's even some case law on slander suits against "Christian" parents accusations against teachers.

An aside: If the school board goes along with the parents without evidentiary proof of moral turpitude on the teacher's part, the whole School district can end up short a Lot of money.

Answer 4

Er...whose definition of immoral? As long as the teacher is doing his or her job, and they're not breaking any laws, what they do outside of school hours is nobody's business but their own.

Answer 5

I would ask in the Education system.

Teachers are there to do their job. As long as they do that competently and follow the laws of the region, the parents are out of bands.