My chemistry tutor added me on facebook

What year are you in?

Me and my mates were talking with our tutor during tutor time and we found out he had facebook and we said as a joke we'll add him and he explained that we cant have eachother on facebook due to teacher student boundaries etc...

so as far as I know he shouldnt of added you ;/

I had a Maths tutor in Y11 that I had on Facebook. The school got him in to teach 4 of us Add Maths
He's really nice and owns his own private tutor company now, and he's always happy to help me if I message him a question.
It's for if you get stuck with stuff.
I don't really think it's crossing the line?

My chemistry tutor added me on facebook. This might sound weird but isnt that crossing the line between being a teacher and a friend? I dont know but there's 4 of us that get him in my year and there's a photo of us 4 and I can just imagine him snooping through my photos and seeing it and stuff. He added one of his other students (my friend) and she accepted so I will probably have to accept cause if not he will ask why I didnt at the next lesson. He is really nice and friendly but a couple of times I felt like he is flirting with me and he is young, he left uni recently. I dont know I just find it creepy that he might look through my photos or whatever and feel like it's crossing a line. Maybe if he added me after I stopped getting him or something but I dont feel its appropriate. Am I being an idiot?

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I probably am just being an idiot, I just feel a bitty creeped out that a twenty year old has added a teenage girl on fb and we do know who the other is but not well. I know thst obviously not everyone one my fb knows me well but I feel creeped out by this for some reason
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I'm in fifth year so 16

Yeah I dunno I just feel weird about it and a little creeped out that he searched for us and that

My biology teacher talks to me through facebook but shes know me and my sister's for 6+ years and she knows me well and in class I'm pretty much the only one thst answers so she likes me and I feel comfortable with her and if I was upset I'd go see her if my pastrol care teacher wasnt there but I just feel creeped out by this
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Uh, yeah, I can see why you feel like it's a bit weird. It depends what kind of photos you have online I suppose - if they're ones that you would be uncomfortable about him seeing, then don't accept him. If he confronts you about it, you'll just have to tell him the truth, that there are things on there you don't feel are appropriate for your tutor to see. If the photos/messages are just innocent, general stuff and you don't really mind, he's probably not going to go trawling through your timeline...

I think all teachers have access to people's facebooks for security reasons? Or that might just be headteachers.

It does seem a bit odd, but he probably just thinks he's being all cool and hip and down with the kids. Tell him you don't want to accept him if you don't, but I wouldn't worry too much...he sounds kind of harmless and fun.

Does he teach you out of school or in school?


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