I’m a teacher and I have had students try to figure out where I lived before. It wasn’t malicious but they did rattle off my license plate number and were trying to get info about where I moved to. Didn’t sit right with me so now I have a policy of not telling them where I live.
I thought it would be too when I first realized it but it's actually been okay. They don't come by my house and mess with me at all. They just holler at me when I'm driving in and out of the neighborhood and they spot me. I also get yelled at a lot in the Walmart or whatever. They're always so excited to see me like they don't realize that I'm a real person outside of school or something.
They very likely just went there in the morning for a harmless and wholesome prank. Teacher seemed to love it too. I really struggle to see what’s wrong about it.
It's just a privacy thing. When you work in education, school is work, students are work, you give them all your best, but when you're at home, you do not want work. He seems happy about it, so no harm done, but if I were the principal in this circumstance (not enough money in the world for me to be admin), I'd be a little "jfc, how do they know where I live?" Then again, I also live a county over from where I work.
“Even though I’m a really great teacher” says only the not really great teacher. Part of “being really great” at something is also knowing that you aren’t. Only the worsts say that they’re great. Sounds like “I’ve peaked”.
You must not be from a small town. I would leave wine on the porch of my daughter’s kindergarten teacher during Covid because I felt bad for her lol. Their old drama teacher lives 2 minutes from us. Music director is about 7 minutes from us. Their elementary band teacher and their current drama costumer are married and live directly behind us. Their elementary school drama teacher is my best friend. One kid has vacationed with the family of the technology teacher. I’ve gone out for ice cream with the last principal when I was in her town. Their middle school English teacher takes walks through our neighborhood with her baby. I’m just now realizing that we know where most of their teachers live lol.
Honestly, that’s kind of sad. My neighbors are awesome. They’ve literally borrowed a cup of sugar before. Share their watermelon with my kid who is obsessed with it. We dog sit for them. They’ve fed our cat. We pay the teenager to cut our lawn. About 6 of us pitch in for bug chemicals and my neighbor sprays the yards. We coordinated our kids’ graduation parties so we could share a lot of things. Get packages for each other if someone is away. My kids babysit for them. They’ve picked up my daughter from work so she didn’t have to walk in the rain. We help each other shovel snow. Damn, I need to go take them all a care package, because I really am lucky.
Unless the person specifically has taken steps to hide such information, just about anyone's address can be easily found online if their name is unique enough or you can narrow the location down to a small enough area (and presuming the person has lived at the address long enough for public records to find their way to these sites).
In most cases it's really just an online version of a phone book, though I suspect they're getting the data from other types of sources as well (some sites offer age ranges for people as well). It all comes down to public records.
If your classmates all agreed on a sleepover at your teachers front yard and tasked you with finding their address you probably would have been able to figure it out.
Anyone who owns their home, their address is public information through any county/township PVA records. Most of them have them available online so you don’t even need to go to the courthouse.
I have 1-2 kids a year who randomly will hold up their laptops and go “is this your house?” Luckily it’s always been the kids who are genuinely goofy who have done that in the past. But yeah, publicly available information.
I teach in a town of 3,000 people. All the kids know where I live. Sometimes I’ll be out of the house and get a ring camera notification and kids will be standing at the door waving to me. It’s very sweet most of the time.
Plenty of countries around the world have or had
a telephone / addresses directory with the "white pages" name in their own language. Similarly, there are the "Yellow Pages".
I am not in America. In my country, most private schools have school buses.
Private schools with huge campuses are often on the outskirts of the city and it's simply not feasible for parents to drive them there. A lot of parents and teachers also don't have cars. So dedicated school buses are the best choice.
If the teacher's own kids are taking the bus to the same school, then why can't they as well?
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u/If_you_have_Ghost Aug 22 '26
Why do they know where their principal lives? I’ve never known the address of any teacher over ever had