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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:12 PM Aug 2020

Teenage Student Whistleblower Who Took Photos of GA High School Opening-Suspended.

I was just informed that the student who took these pictures from inside of the school has been suspended.


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Breaking—the teenage student who whistle blew and took the photos of the Georgia high school without much masks—was just suspended by school. Terrible optics on part of the school.

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On Wednesday, the school addressed the controversy that had swirled around the viral photograph via an intercom announcement from North Paulding High School principal Gabe Carmona. In it, according to two people familiar with the situation, he stated that any student found criticizing the school on social media could face disciplinary consequences.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/georgia-school-reopening-photo-paulding-county?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharefacebook&ref=mobile_share&fbclid=IwAR0jh7u5zW_KRL2T_yx7oZQdgttERocvokSorGYUcd1u15VQtRZ_N-XJPAk
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Teenage Student Whistleblower Who Took Photos of GA High School Opening-Suspended. (Original Post) kpete Aug 2020 OP
Wait until the Covid cases start piling up. The kid will be vindicated big time. Vinca Aug 2020 #1
Maybe That Student Wanted That! ProfessorGAC Aug 2020 #2
Suspended on what grounds? SoonerPride Aug 2020 #3
Probably "invasion of students' privacy"... regnaD kciN Aug 2020 #5
Yet these types of pictures appear in Yearbooks every year ... aggiesal Aug 2020 #16
I'm with you on this... dhill926 Aug 2020 #17
Apparently violated a Georgia School Statute DFW Aug 2020 #7
In yeehaw land? They don't need grounds. paleotn Aug 2020 #26
Could be no phone or picture policy tinymontgomery Aug 2020 #50
No phone or picture policy ... Mariana Aug 2020 #58
'criticizing the school on social media could face disciplinary consequences.' elleng Aug 2020 #4
The policy is likely completely unrelated to COVID. LisaM Aug 2020 #9
And Probably Completely Illegal. jayfish Aug 2020 #21
Very tRump like! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #10
Zacly elleng Aug 2020 #11
👍 SheltieLover Aug 2020 #13
Welcome to the Fascist States of Amurka. paleotn Aug 2020 #30
Crazy. All the dude did was post pictures. mwooldri Aug 2020 #43
suspended? WTH? renate Aug 2020 #6
Trump's America louis-t Aug 2020 #8
No better way than learning firsthand how America actually operates. "Civics"my ass. BamaRefugee Aug 2020 #12
How is it even possible to blow a whistle with your mask on? Mr. Ected Aug 2020 #14
I just tried... after several attemps, it WAS possible. not_the_one Aug 2020 #45
Principle has to be a Trumpette. Just guessing. n/t aggiesal Aug 2020 #15
Given the stupidity of the adults "in" authority as opposed to being "an authority," suspension ancianita Aug 2020 #18
The person was a She. nt Blue_true Aug 2020 #23
Thanks. ancianita Aug 2020 #51
No problem. It was embedded in the attached Tweets. Easy enough to miss. nt Blue_true Aug 2020 #52
Yah I just went by the "teenage student" privacy wording in the OP. ancianita Aug 2020 #53
Wish EVERY parent would bluestarone Aug 2020 #19
Someone said that it is in a red, white flight area. Trump is likely very popular there. Blue_true Aug 2020 #24
SAD! bluestarone Aug 2020 #27
Read the attached Buzzfeed article. Apparently grandparents there are not concerned Blue_true Aug 2020 #36
Next up.....Brian "the big brain" Kemp sues her. ResistantAmerican17 Aug 2020 #20
The kid is a She. nt Blue_true Aug 2020 #25
I didn't click over to buzzfeed.. Mea culpa. ResistantAmerican17 Aug 2020 #38
I understand. I didn't realize that it was a girl until I read a Tweet that her sister made. Blue_true Aug 2020 #39
which reminds me, I miss Aqua Teen Hunger Force CatWoman Aug 2020 #34
Number One in the hood, G. nt Codeine Aug 2020 #54
Safest kid in that school Hip2bSquare Aug 2020 #22
Next student who wants to post photos like this should indicate how happy happy happy they are... Hekate Aug 2020 #28
If you can't refute the message, then harm the messenger any way you can. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2020 #29
Hope principal and school board have deep pockets JT45242 Aug 2020 #31
And you wonder why the GOP wants lawsuit protection against Employers in stimulus bill aeromanKC Aug 2020 #32
From the former director of the Student Press Law Center jayschool2013 Aug 2020 #33
Time to call the ACLU. BadgerMom Aug 2020 #35
Tinker vs Des Moines Board of Education FailureToCommunicate Aug 2020 #37
Principunk should be benched indefinitely, replaced with a real educator/human being bringthePaine Aug 2020 #40
Suspended is probably safer than being around so many unmasked students IronLionZion Aug 2020 #41
They should've named the school Fascist High. Karadeniz Aug 2020 #42
suspended FOR WHAT? Demovictory9 Aug 2020 #44
Exposing stupidity of republican run school districts. (nt) Elwood P Dowd Aug 2020 #48
Getting suspended could save that kid from getting sick. tinrobot Aug 2020 #46
+1 uponit7771 Aug 2020 #49
Charlie Daniels may be dead, but the devil seems to have gone back to Georgia Mr. Ected Aug 2020 #47
F'ing Nazi's OverBurn Aug 2020 #55
Suspended for making the Trump supporters look bad budkin Aug 2020 #56
hopefully the kid will get a good lawyer riversedge Aug 2020 #57
answer Judy Fix Sep 2020 #59

Vinca

(50,172 posts)
1. Wait until the Covid cases start piling up. The kid will be vindicated big time.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:14 PM
Aug 2020

In the meantime, an enterprising attorney should help the family win some college tuition because of this.

ProfessorGAC

(64,427 posts)
2. Maybe That Student Wanted That!
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:15 PM
Aug 2020

Attending from home because they "have to".
Could have been a clever way around being there in the test tube.

regnaD kciN

(26,035 posts)
5. Probably "invasion of students' privacy"...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:19 PM
Aug 2020

The authorities will no doubt equate it to students passing around nudes of their ex-partners.

aggiesal

(8,864 posts)
16. Yet these types of pictures appear in Yearbooks every year ...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:10 PM
Aug 2020

Also, a lot of the pictures don't show the students faces.
So who's privacy are we violating if we can recognize their faces?

I believe they are being suspended for making the school administrators look bad.

DFW

(54,057 posts)
7. Apparently violated a Georgia School Statute
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:20 PM
Aug 2020

"Telling the Truth Without Written Authorization"

Republicans see that as a violation, including in schools.

tinymontgomery

(2,584 posts)
50. Could be no phone or picture policy
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:37 PM
Aug 2020

Could be no phone or picture policy. Crappy way of handling it through.
School I taught at had a no phone policy and teachers were supposed to take them and
turn the phone into the office to be picked up by the parent at the end of the day.

I would see some walking down the hall way on their way to class and just say "come on you know better"
and they would put them away. In my class I would only take them if they gave me a hard time
or lie to me they had them out. I would just say the same as above. 99.9 percent were good at
just following the rule after that.

If they really needed to use the phone I would tell them to ask me first before they took them out, during break, and told
them if I gave them permission I'm the one that would take the fall and not them. If they did it on their own
and tried to hide it at the time, I let them know that we would both take the fall and there would be
no forgiveness for any one after that. Lots of times I would just take them to my office and
let them use my office phone if they needed to call their parents. Kids got really good at following my rules
since they found them reasonable. I think I took 3 phones in six years.

Mariana

(14,849 posts)
58. No phone or picture policy ...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 11:49 PM
Aug 2020

Exactly. Wouldn’t want photo, audio, or video evidence to get out that might make the school and the district look bad.

LisaM

(27,762 posts)
9. The policy is likely completely unrelated to COVID.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:34 PM
Aug 2020

I don't, however, think this is the right time to evoke it.

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
10. Very tRump like!
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:42 PM
Aug 2020


Same in many parts of TN. Students take a pix of someone who assaulted them for identification, take pix to admin (only!) & boom. Suspended. 🤬🤬🤬

mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
43. Crazy. All the dude did was post pictures.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:48 PM
Aug 2020

The captions were basically "first day of school" and "more pictures". The person who posted the tweet didn't appear to state anything other than posting pictures.

renate

(13,776 posts)
6. suspended? WTH?
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 05:20 PM
Aug 2020

I mean, I'm happy for them; they're out of the petri dish.

But how is this legal? Kids take pictures of their classmates all the time. Nobody was doing anything they weren't being forced to do... go to class, be in the halls between classes, and be around their classmates.

This student simply took a picture of what is happening in their school, under the governor's aegis, and is being punished for it? And the governor isn't?

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
14. How is it even possible to blow a whistle with your mask on?
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:05 PM
Aug 2020

Sorry, didn't mean to make light of this.

I live in Georgia and what you see here is playing out all over this area of the state. Suburban whites thinking that whiteness is their get out of coronavirus free card.

The fallout from this miscalculation cannot be overstated. Death is coming soon to north Georgia. It will visit students and parents and extended family. It will decimate the churches.

And somehow, some way, Joe Biden will be held responsible. Mark my words.

I hope I survive it. I hope this nice cloth mask helps. God I hope it helps.

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
45. I just tried... after several attemps, it WAS possible.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:54 PM
Aug 2020

Not trying to further make light of the situation... I just thought I would do the experiment.

You DON'T criticize turd policy in "Jawjuh". You WILL be punished. They are willing to shit on the constitution to support the turd (no pun intended), in Jawjuh.

This kid is learning a great civics lesson.

As another poster pointed out, when the virus starts spreading this student will become prescient.

ancianita

(35,816 posts)
18. Given the stupidity of the adults "in" authority as opposed to being "an authority," suspension
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:17 PM
Aug 2020

is a badge of honor and probably will save his life.

He didn't get "discipline." He got undisciplined discipline.

As a 35 year veteran of high school teaching, I'm proud of him and hope he's okay with it all.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
24. Someone said that it is in a red, white flight area. Trump is likely very popular there.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:32 PM
Aug 2020

Doubt that many will be pulling their kids out of school.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
36. Read the attached Buzzfeed article. Apparently grandparents there are not concerned
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:54 PM
Aug 2020

about their grandkids bringing COViD to them. I hate to sound callous, but if I find out that people like that died of COViD, I would shrug my shoulders and move on to other issues.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
39. I understand. I didn't realize that it was a girl until I read a Tweet that her sister made.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:04 PM
Aug 2020

It isn’t surprising that a girl did the expose.

Hip2bSquare

(291 posts)
22. Safest kid in that school
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:25 PM
Aug 2020

Pretty disgraceful to have to suspend the kid, but that kid is one of the smartest and now safest ones in that school.

Hekate

(90,202 posts)
28. Next student who wants to post photos like this should indicate how happy happy happy they are...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:36 PM
Aug 2020

...to be back in school with all their friends.

Let the viewers draw their own conclusions and post their own negative comments, which they will.

Meanwhile, back in the US Soviet school system, it will be hard to punish a student who claims to be happy to be in a shoulder to shoulder crowd wearing no masks.

Damn all Trumpistas.

JT45242

(2,173 posts)
31. Hope principal and school board have deep pockets
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:39 PM
Aug 2020

Tinker v. Des Moines states that students have rights of free speech.

The principal will lose a major law suit and if I were his liability insurance company, I would fight payment as gross negligence usually nullified those contracts.

aeromanKC

(3,307 posts)
32. And you wonder why the GOP wants lawsuit protection against Employers in stimulus bill
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:42 PM
Aug 2020

It's not a matter if but when students start dying. They already have become positive. Especially when schools are not complying with safety standards.

jayschool2013

(2,309 posts)
33. From the former director of the Student Press Law Center
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:45 PM
Aug 2020

<a href="https://t.co/IvorqIdFlg">https://t.co/IvorqIdFlg</a></p>— Frank LoMonte (@FrankLoMonte) <a href="


?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

FailureToCommunicate

(13,989 posts)
37. Tinker vs Des Moines Board of Education
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 06:58 PM
Aug 2020

"...Neither students nor teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."

-Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, in Tinker v. Des Moines, 1969.

tinrobot

(10,848 posts)
46. Getting suspended could save that kid from getting sick.
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:03 PM
Aug 2020

Not to mention his family.

Might be the best thing that ever happened to him.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
47. Charlie Daniels may be dead, but the devil seems to have gone back to Georgia
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:06 PM
Aug 2020

And he's looking to steal more than one soul, that's for damned sure.

If I was the kid, I'd gladly get the eff out of that school, take remote courses and hire a great lawyer from the ACLU. Keep that academic record pristine!

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