Facebook ‘Selfie’ Provokes Debate On Online Civility, Teacher Diversity

Vanessa de la Torre:

Teacher Heather Zottola was at a training session for city educators on the evening of Sept. 2, hearing about ways they can better serve students of color — the bulk of Hartford’s students — when she noticed one of the attendees angling a cellphone camera in her direction.

“I remember thinking, at first, ‘Oh, she’s taking a selfie.’ Then I was like, ‘Oh, look it, I’m in her picture,'” Zottola recalled this month. The woman, city board of education member Shelley Best, was seated only a few feet away in a downtown banquet room.