I just saw a rather bizarre story out of Anderson, Indiana where middle school students were using a school-issued Apple iPad in class when a picture of their topless teacher suddenly popped up. The students, who did nothing but use the device, were suspended and are threatened with expulsion while the teacher has been subject to unspecified action by the school.
The students at Highland Middle School insist that the photo suddenly appeared due to the fact that the teacher’s iPhone was synched with the device.
Assistant Superintendent Beth Clark admits that it was just an accident but then why suspend the students? When student, Joshua Trout, described how he and his friends were just using the device when the image appeared in front of them. Unless there is an allegation that they sought such private files (which does not appear in these stories), it seems odd that they were somehow expected not to see what involuntarily appeared in front of them.
Source: Net5
“junctionshamus,
Bill wouldn’t like our calendar pictures–but right wingers would. We were dressed in 1950s June Cleaver attire–house dresses, ruffled aprons, pearl necklaces–and were cast doing wifely/motherly duties: scraping carrots, slicing chocolate cake for the kids, dusting furniture, etc.” (Elaine)
http://bad.eserver.org/upcoming/82/82/82-graphics/retrohousewife
Except for SwM … she got to wear a prom dress and a crown.
http://991.com/newGallery/Mambo-Taxi-Prom-Queen-509423.jpg
I had a nephew visiting quite often during his teen years. Then I started getting lots of emails inviting me to visit porn sites. He’s doesn’t seem to be more perverted than most of the male population. I think he was just curious. Now the boys just need to look at some of their classmates to see what girls are all about.
nick,
Grown men who who never grow out of their obsession with boobs ARE boobs! Are you a “leg” man now?
😉
Lessons from this:
1. don’t connect your personal stuff to the school stuff
2. don’t put anything on your techie stuff that you don’t want others to see
3. don’t give kids techie stuff and then try to restrict their access, they’ll find more on there than you think even exists.
junctionshamus,
Bill wouldn’t like our calendar pictures–but right wingers would. We were dressed in 1950s June Cleaver attire–house dresses, ruffled aprons, pearl necklaces–and were cast doing wifely/motherly duties: scraping carrots, slicing chocolate cake for the kids, dusting furniture, etc.
I was teaching when the internet first came to schools. We called library/computer duty “booby patrol.” I know MikeS is going to castigate us men about our obsession w/ boobs. Well think Columbine and it is all put in perspective vis a vis obsessions.
@Blouise – Wish I had the skills to caption and post that oft-used photo of Bill Clinton (impersonator) running out on the dais. It’d say, “Did someone say a calendar shoot with Blouise, Elaine and SwM???)
Elaine M.,
A tattoo? 😉
(Probably was one of either of us thanks to that calendar shoot SwM talked us into.)
come on you guys! All these additions of information and logical questions are just spoiling a good fauxtrage!
How can we maintain the appropriate anger & disdain if the facts get in the way?
Ah…technology in the classroom–making kids smarter!
*****
Blouise,
If the picture that popped up on the iPad showed a woman from the neck down–how do they know it was a picture of the teacher?
I read in Forbes that the initial stories were written based on info from one of the mothers whose child has been suspended. The school is not, thus far, commenting to the media.
“Despite initial reports that the teacher was nude, the Anderson police department investigated the Monday, Oct. 15 incident and said the image showed the teacher “from the neck down, with partial exposure.” (Kashmir Hill)
Speculation … and it’s only speculation… in other reports is that the boys were accessing other apps on the ipod without permission and that is how the picture popped up.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/10/18/teacher-accidentally-puts-racy-photo-on-students-ipad-school-bizarrely-suspends-students/
Yeah, THAT makes sense. Okay then.
Hey, Teacher…leave us kids alone.
All in all it’s just a…nother break in the Firewall.
I hope this doesn’t end up as some kind of notation of sexual behavior in their “Permanent Record.” Imagine the brew-ha if it had been a picture of a Glock 9mm pistol that they saw on the iPad
Hilarious! In Indiana no less!! Wouldn’t this technically be a Sexting case? 🙂
And they’ll never look at their teacher again in the same way! LOL
Another example of idiotic and incompetent school administration. These people have no clue. Probably following some mindless zero tolerance policy. The kids now have zero respect for their principal/superintendent.
Boobies! How appropos for Breast Cancer Awareness Month; thanks for the opening, JT!
Updated story indicates photo wasn’t topless, the boys were given permission to use two particular applications on the ipad, and the boys were punished for exploring other applications including the one which accessed the photo from the cloud.
Probably an indicator of the growing ‘blame the victim’ ideology going around.