Should K-12 teachers be Facebook friends with students?

i think you've gone so far left that you've started going right. it doesn't really matter if the parents are offended by what a teacher does on their own time. the parents have the right to restrict or monitor their child's internet use, and that's it. if the teacher lives in some small town where he would get fired for something like that then he should use discretion posting, or better yet move to a town where people don't start mobs wielding pitchforks and torches...