An Explanation for Patch's Facebook Photo Snafu

On August 1, a story regarding the latest developments in teacher contract negotiations between the Hinsdale High School Teachers Association and Dist. 86 school board was posted on the Hinsdale-Clarendon Hills, Darien and Burr Ridge Patch sites. The story, “Teachers: ‘Board Gave Us An Hour’ To Rescind Strike Vote,” was illustrated with the HHSTA union logo.

Unfortunately, when the teachers’ association posted the story on its Facebook page, the image of an ax in a car dashboard appeared instead. This was an Internet glitch on Patch’s part, which was happening to Patch Facebook pages across the country.

The ax image did appear on a Massachusetts Patch story about an ax falling off a truck and crashing through a woman’s car windshield.

Some readers, when seeing the image of an ax with the story link on the HHSTA Facebook page, construed it as an editorial statement made by the teachers. The teachers’ association DID NOT intentionally post this image to make a statement.

Patch apologizes to the HHSTA, the Dist. 86 Board of Education and to our readers for any alarm this image may have caused and we accept full responsibility for the glitch. ~ Lorraine Swanson, Editor