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To be enraged on behalf of the mother?

142 replies

HerVagesty · 06/10/2014 16:41

Fail [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2782126/Schoolgirl-15-humiliated-teacher-showed-picture-bikini-100-fellow-pupils-demonstrate-dangers-social-networks.html]]

I mean, kids these days need to be taught that they are even less "invisible" than we thought we were due to social media, but really? Hmm

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5madthings · 06/10/2014 18:11

I imagine if another pupil had taken the pic, blown it up and put it up in school they would be disciplined for bullying.

What the teacher has done is wrong, I don't care what lesson she was trying to teach.

wonkylegs · 06/10/2014 18:12

I suspect they just took the easiest accessible photo of the teenagers they searched for and that would usually be their profile photo which for most people is a headshot & for a few people is a full photo in this case in a bikini. I sincerely doubt she was singled out because she was in a bikini rather that it happened to be the main photo that came up with her name.

ClapHandsIfYouBelieveInFatties · 06/10/2014 18:13

I am also in two minds. Most of that class could have accessed that image had they REALLY wanted to. Even if they were not friends with her on FB. It's a lesson. THey were wrong to do it really but it's a good lesson.

JemimaButtons · 06/10/2014 18:13

Really OP??

Rubbish! She put the picture on Facebook without having proper security in place or else the teacher wouldn't have been able to find it so easily.
Pupils are warned over and over that this can happen
Presumably many of the pupils who saw it in school will already have viewed it online and if she was so distraught by the thought of it being viewed, why put it in the public domain.
hope she has learned a lesson.

^ This

TheFairyCaravan · 06/10/2014 18:13

I wonder how many people would be happy if their boss had done this with a picture of them in front of 100+ colleagues?

JemimaButtons · 06/10/2014 18:16

If the photo isn't for public consumption, then she shouldn't have out it on the net.

The teacher didn't break into the family home and take the photo from the family photo album.

The photo was on the Internet for anyone to see.

wanttosqueezeyou · 06/10/2014 18:16

The teacher abused their position to blow up and distribute the photo.

If they couldn't teach the valuable lesson on internet safety without singling out and embarrassing one person they need some training.

Littlebairn I'd be right there with you.

saintlyjimjams · 06/10/2014 18:20

That's the school Tom Daley left because of bullying. :random:

MrSheen · 06/10/2014 18:23

There is a world of difference between putting a photo on FB 'for all the world to see' when you probably don't care much if the world sees it, because it's just you, in an outfit you wore in public, not a porn shot and having said photo blown up and displayed so you can be used as an example of stupidity for being caught out flaunting your wares.

Vintagejazz · 06/10/2014 18:24

As a previous poster said there's a big difference between putting a photograph on Facebook, and having it blown up and appearing in front of 100 fellow pupils with no warning.
It was a crass and clumsy way of making a point and demonstrates a serious lack of judgment by the teacher concerned. I was glad to see that the Headmistress apologised unreservedly. I assume she's also had firm words with the teacher.

Nameexchange · 06/10/2014 18:29

What vezzie said. Poor girl :-( That kind of humiliation can push a child towards all sorts of MH problems like anorexia to self harm. It's awful.

ArabellaTarantella · 06/10/2014 18:29

Oh well......after all the furore has calmed down maybe the silly little girl will have learned a life lesson.

MrSheen · 06/10/2014 18:32

What is the life lesson? You must be covered from collarbone to knees or it's open season for your teachers taking the piss out of you in front of an audience?

wanttosqueezeyou · 06/10/2014 18:32

I wonder how many people would be happy if their boss had done this with a picture of them in front of 100+ colleagues?

So true FairyCaravan.

Maybe she made a mistake in security settings.
Maybe she never envisaged an authority figure 'shaming' her in front of her peers.

ArabellaTarantella · 06/10/2014 18:41

What is the life lesson? You must be covered from collarbone to knees or it's open season for your teachers taking the piss out of you in front of an audience?

No, check and double check your Facebook settings MrSheen

Tunna · 06/10/2014 18:42

I know of a uni who did a similar thing to their first yr students training to be teachers, except it was pictures of them drunk, or posts that included references to sex, alcohol etc. The point was to drive home that parents, kids and future employees could and will seek out profiles.

I know there's a difference in such that these students were adults, but the fact remains that if you use social media to share information, there is the possibility it could end up in the wrong hands.

LadyLuck10 · 06/10/2014 18:55

People need to learn that 'expressing' themselves has consequences. Look at the examples this week. A lady trolling took her life due to her own actions. This girl now has her photos exposed, which was public the moment she posted them. Hope this girl learnt her lesson.

Nanny0gg · 06/10/2014 19:10

They didn't need to identify her to prove a point.

It was a hideous thing to do.

Nanny0gg · 06/10/2014 19:13

I imagine if another pupil had taken the pic, blown it up and put it up in school they would be disciplined for bullying. What the teacher has done is wrong, I don't care what lesson she was trying to teach.

And if I were the girl's mother I'd want her head on a stick.

(and I used to teach ICT. There are ways and there are ways)

NutcrackerFairy · 06/10/2014 19:19

Charming Arabella Hmm

I take it you would have been fine for a teacher to treat you like this at 15... or one of your children?

It is bullying, plain and simple.

Mrsstarlord · 06/10/2014 19:31

Don't see the issue, don't want it on public view - don't put it on FB.

If I don't want something to be seen by over 100 people I don't put it on FB, I would advise my kids to do the same and if they chose to put it on anyway and it was shared - perhaps it would teach them a lesson?

I'd be sympathetic but philosophical - I certainly wouldn't be complaining to the daily mail!

however · 06/10/2014 19:35

What did the teenage boy's mother say when a similar picture of him in his swimming trunks was broadcast to the school?

Oh, wait....

indigo18 · 06/10/2014 19:38

Surely if the lesson is learned at 15 there won't be any photos available for a future boss to show..which is exactly the point being made.

hollie84 · 06/10/2014 19:40

So the teacher googled the names of students and put a range of photos up?

Photos that were publicly accessible?

Don't really see how this child was "singled out"

indigo18 · 06/10/2014 19:42

however she was in shorts. She he was clearly happy for her Facebook contacts to see the picture. As a previous poster pointed out, it appears to be profile pictures that were used; there is no suggestion that a bikini shot was searched for.

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