If there was a newspaper story about the Op it would be just as public, but it would still be very arseholish to make copies and post them around the school.
OP, are you posting from school with the students? There is no need to have an account if you are just reading threads.
A British computer security expert said something like this on the radio the other day: “How much sensitive information would you put on the back of a postcard you are going to mail? Because more people will read what you put online than will read the back of a postcard.”
Sure, if you can guarantee anonymity you might be more comfortable about it, but the OP is the one who compromised their own anonymity. Sucks, but there you go: some kids can be very cruel, and you as a teacher should know this.
I have found that if someone can hurt you there is something that you can do that allowed it, a part of you that needs healing. Yes it was wrong for the student to do such a thing, I am not denying it, but the solution is not to come down on the student but look within to heal that aspect of you and make it unable to hurt you in the future. If you catch the student that does nothing to heal the underlying issue that is just waiting for the next person to hurt you with, and just lies hidden till that time.
Once healed you should be able to talk about the stuff in that post openly and freely as part of your past, how much you have learned from it, and though it was a bad time, how it was turned for the good in your life.
God bless you.
I’m very sorry this happened to you, solkoe. I’d suggest first that you make sure your account is logged out of the classroom computer and you should change your password. You could also contact TubaDiva or another administrator about changing your username if you like.
I’m going to Hartlepool to buy some exploding trousers.
She’s not a very bright lady then. There is no criminal conduct here.
Please do before some cop feels the need to tape up your complaint and take it along to the next school board meeting to discuss your continuing employment. What pray tell would be the charge? A student told the truth about a situation you were involved in? Also, it’s of no moment that your family is involved. Presumably, they’re all aware of the situation anyway.
Take this time to research the law and figure out why it isn’t illegal.
So, I guess you can blame me then since I’m not a member; I’m a guest.
Apparently so can busy “educators”. It was no mistake to do what they did. It might be rude, but it’s certainly not a mistake to make known that which is public information. The mistake was entirely yours.
And they might not want to. In this case, their want trumps yours.
solkoe made a mistake, the student acted maliciously.
The way I get this is that this student is suspected of using solkoe’s password to access her information. We cannot rule out, though, that one of solkoe’s students became a member of this fine, fine board himself (or herself) and decided to access solkoe’s profile to go through all her posts, and then found this particular one. If this happened, how is that even stealing?
Your point? Acting with malice isn’t necessarily a mistake. Just being malicious isn’t illegal, or even actionable. I can spread all the truths about anyone I’d like without it being illegal, or without there even being grounds to sue me. To say whether it’s a mistake or not requires us getting in the minds of these unknown agents. I decline to speculate about why these unknown agents did what they did.
There could be quite a few reasons why they did it, and for good reason.
But, as one’s old posts also then are under one’s user name, would that really help matters?
What is your hangup on this mistake issue? I said it appears to have been deliberately malicious, which would mean it’s not a mistake. I did not comment about whether or not it’s an issue for the police, but it probably isn’t.
I think solkoe was saying the student did not realize the potential consequences of what he or she did. But there are probably no consequences. It’s a mean-spirited prank and that’s probably all there is to it. It was a bad decision on solkoe’s part to show his students a name he was using on a message board and devote classroom time to that.
Oh good, let’s please get into unrealistic hypotheticals. Perhaps the OP is a spy or an alien scout?
If he also stops showing his posts so his students don’t know the new name, I think it would help some.
Meh, nothing bad can ever come of that.
I seriously doubt it. Whenever anything somewhat malicous happens on the internet everyone always pictures some sinister plot by an uber-elite hacker gaining their password information in some hi-tech way. In actuality, the OP probably had it open on his computer and a student walked by or he was showing it to the class and someone saw who he was logged in as and registered here and did a search.
People around here have no idea how much information they give away. People discussing rapes and their relatives driving drunk and killing their sisters fiance, etc. It’s very easy to search and find out exactly where you live and who you are talking about. People just don’t realize the information they give away to anyone who cares to search and can use google.
That would certainly help some, but they can bookmark this thread and see what the name changes to can’t they?
You’re giving this kid a lot of credit.
I don’t think that’s ever been implied. That is definitely not the implication when the OP said:
Well, maybe the kid is what the Irish call a “cute hoor”. 
Because it might not have been a mistake. My point is that we don’t actually know what was going through whoever’s mind at the time, thus it’s all speculative.
Nor did I say you said it was a matter for the police. But it was a topic in the OP, so I included it to cover my bases.
How about if we just go with what I actually said: that I decline to speculate about their reasons. I find curious, though, that your first instinct is to divine some alien theory or spy theory. My point entirely was that since we don’t know why they did what they did, or even anything much about the teacher in question, it’s rank speculation. Your first thoughts tend to support my claim. I suppose it’s hard for you to conceive there might be good reasons whoever did this which don’t include the absurd.
This is more speculation. We have no reason to believe that it was even students who did this. While they’re a good candidate, so too would be coworkers. It’s not as though the courts are light in cases decrying hostile work environments. Either conclusion though (well, a presupposition on your part) is rank speculation.
As I said, I decline to speculate about their (whoever they are) motives, or even who they are. It’s simply immaterial.
What’s your hangup about my having pointed out that it’s not a safe bet to presume that because some people disagree with the action that it’s necessarily a mistake? It would seem rather self-evident. But then again, your first instinct is to read aliens into the matter.
And? As you said yourself, this is really not relevant.
I think that seems unlikely. It’s more the kind of thing a kid does, and we don’t know if any of the OP’s coworkers know about this in the first place.
My hangup is that the point itself is unimportant, and that you’re dragging the thread off-topic.
This is what I was thinking. The student couldn’t search without registering on the board, right?