No, the student (or anyone else) can search this board using Google.
Solkoe, you don’t need a second username, do you? You can still read threads without being logged in, and presumably you’re not posting here on behalf of your class. If you need to navigate to a particular thread without using search, you can either use Google search to locate it, or find the thread and log out before class starts, or email yourself the link from your home computer ahead of time.
You don’t even have to be a guest. Here’s a handy thread that tells you how to search the board with google, including examples for searching for all posts by a user.
Forgot about that. :smack:
Thanks.
This is precisely why I kept my anonymity close to me when I was teaching. I remember a student showing up with one of the old SDMB tee-shirts and thinking, "boy I wish I knew his username. " Glad I never brought it up. Except of course with all you wonderful people here 
You’re not going to get much in the way of satisfaction. Since everyone knows about it now, you may as well let it be an object lesson in not putting private information in a public forum, and about the e-trails that you leave. You could supplement it with this article.
Well, he does have an unusually close relationship with that Zim kid and his weird dog.
I don’t understand why you need to be logged in to show the kids threads anyway (not that I’d show my kids the board anyway- too much vulgarity and such).
I’m still wondering if the post in question is the one Frank linked to. How could that possibly be embarassing? Shame over divorce is a thing of the past.
And how old are these kids?
2nd these questions.
Yeah, that’s kind of sad if that’s the post which is causing all the trouble. It’s one of the more innocuous posts about a divorce/breakup you’d see here.
I can’t help but think there’s an air of “there but for the grace of God go I” in this thread. There have been a whole lot of posts on this board (and the one Frank linked to doesn’t even register on the Richter scale, honestly) which would cause massive embarrassment–or worse–if their authors were “named and shamed.” And all the posters who are clucking here about “being careful with your user name, you shouldn’t post anything which could be used against you”…go through your user history and see if your record here is completely clean. Is there anything at all which is as embarrassing as what the OP posted (and two freakin’ years ago, at that)? I’m going to be the first to put my hand up and say that for me, of course there is. Hell, I’ve written in some depth about my own divorce here.
Frankly, I’m unhappy that someone got ratted out for what they wrote here, even if it was by their own hand. I don’t know how I would have been if I couldn’t have written about what I was going through concerning my own divorce, and it was great that I had a safe place here, so many years ago when this place was safer. I’d feel the same way the OP does, and I’m disappointed that so many posters here used their 20/20 hindsight to say, “Well, you should have expected when you wrote that two years ago, when nobody thought that we would ever be indexed by Google, that some malicious student would grab your innocuous post about your divorce and paste it up everywhere.” Sure he should have known.
What a shitty thing to do to a person.
When I was a kid we caught on that one of our teachers wore a wig. The better part of a year of recess periods were spent devising ways to pull it off her in a grand and spectacularly embarrassing way.
We weren’t mature enough to realize the reason she had a wig was because she had gone through chemo during summer break. We just thought a bald headed teacher was amusing.
It all ended with her catching some kids passing notes about it and she brought it all out into the open, discussing her illness with us. Lessons were learned and at least some of us discovered our compassionate sides. Maybe you could use this as a life lesson. I don’t know how old the students are and I don’t care to read any more responses here (They’re frankly turning my stomach. Hope my parentheses are correct) so sorry if I missed it.
If nothing else, let it be a lesson for you.
Wins the thread.
If he did that, we’d have a much more interesting thread here.
You beat me to it by half an hour. I wasn’t gonna let that one slide.
It’s not that he posted something that was embarrassing.
It’s that he knowingly allowed schoolchildren to access his posting history here.
Some of us take greater pains than others to preserve our anonymity. And all of us (well, all of us who have any sense whatsoever) know that our posts here could well be linked to us regardless of whatever precautions we might take. That’s the risk we take. But how many of us would willingly expose our posting identity to a bunch of teenagers–who, as we all know, are prone to mischief.
tdn–Of course what he posted is embarrassing! Look at it from his point of view. If an adult discovered “my wife is leaving me and I’m sleeping in the basement,” well, no biggie. But it was a bunch of kids! That’s GREAT gossip fodder. I mean, I remember when I was in school, any outside info on a teacher was hot gossip. “I saw Mr. Bracken on Saturday!” “Really? What was he doing?” “Walking his dog! He was wearing jeans and a windbreaker!!” “OMG!!”
Good point. Kids are weird.
A school teacher I once dated let it slip that she was seeing someone. Her students teased her mercilessly about it. Really immature stuff. And these were high school kids.
Surprisingly, my HS math teacher invited us all to his house for a BBQ. He showed a lot of trust!
I don’t get the sense that he told kids, “This is my name, this is the site I post on.” I think he showed them this site and the kids put two and two together. I could be wrong on that, but I’m not sure.
Apparently, though, you have made up your mind that this guy deserves whatever he gets, up to and including being fired, so I’ll save my breath on anything further.
So that made it OK for kids to print it up and put it all over the school, huh? Interesting.
Would you be kind enough to explain this please?
Do you and the class decide upon “fun” questions to ask, then you post them under your screen-name and discuss the responses?
If that is the case, it was a little - um - careless to not realize that they could search your entire posting history, no?
Could you provide any examples of questions you posted for class discussion?
I also would appreciate learning the age of the kids, the subject you teach, and where your school is.
Curious as to what level in school posting on the Dope would be a practice approved by school administrators and parents.
Finally, please explain why that linked post about your divorce would have you “steaming.”
Doesn’t seem all that bad to me.
Wouldn’t it make it all go away to simply say, “Yes, I was divorced.”
Have the school remind students that posting further references violates whatever portion of the school code concerning disrespect to faculty, and quietly have custodians remove and toss any future postings.
The more “steamed” you act about, the more enjoyment the little shits are going to derive for the longest time.
Duke–Please don’t put words in my mouth.