Okay,
I'm not really sure that I understand this one, but apparently, two middle
school students from Indiana were recently suspended after they accidentally
saw a topless photo of their teacher on a classroom iPad. 13-year-old Joshua
Troutt said that the racy photo popped up when he and a couple of other
classmates were playing a game on the school-issued device, which they say was
synched to the female teacher's iPhone.
Troutt,
a student at Highland Middle School in Anderson, Indiana, stated "It's not
our fault she had the photo on there. We couldn't do anything not to look at
it." Believe it or not, I actually believe these kids. It's the teacher's
fault for having this type of photo on her phone and not to mention really dumb
of her to sync her iPhone to a school-issued iPad that kids will use. Here's
what I don't understand; Troutt was among the students suspended for looking at
the photo. One other student was also suspended, one received a warning, and a
fourth student was expelled for the incident, while the school district does
believe it was an accident, they will be taking action against the teacher as
well.
The
students involved were said to be punished because they violated the school's
technology policy, which I really don't understand. The person who should be
punished here is the teacher. The kid's accidentally found the provocative
photo, and to be quite honest, if I saw a pic of my teacher topless, I probably
wouldn't have been able to draw my eyes away from the iPad either. The problem
here is why was this content even available to see for these kids? And why was
a student actually expelled for it? Unless, the kids actually found a way to
sync the iPad to her phone to find the pictures and made a big deal about it in
class. Then this would all make sense, but I'm not getting the feeling that
this happened by reading the story.
Troutt's
mother is furious that her son was punished, and I don't blame her. She thinks
the teacher should have lost her job. Nicole Troutt told a local TV news
channel, "In all reality, you'd think she'd be fired! That's a nude
picture in the school that the students saw. My son didn't even touch the iPad.
Another kid pulled up the picture on the iPad. He never touched it,
period!" Either way, Mrs. Troutt says she might pull her son from the
school if the district doesn't reverse the punishment. I have to tell you; I
really don't understand why these kids are being punished. It's not like they
took the nude photos of the teacher. Am I wrong?
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