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I was just informed that the student who took these pictures from inside of the school has been suspended.
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Breakingthe teenage student who whistle blew and took the photos of the Georgia high school without much maskswas just suspended by school. Terrible optics on part of the school.
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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
Vinca
(50,172 posts)In the meantime, an enterprising attorney should help the family win some college tuition because of this.
ProfessorGAC
(64,427 posts)Attending from home because they "have to".
Could have been a clever way around being there in the test tube.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)How are photos violation of school policy?
regnaD kciN
(26,035 posts)The authorities will no doubt equate it to students passing around nudes of their ex-partners.
aggiesal
(8,864 posts)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.
dhill926
(16,234 posts)DFW
(54,057 posts)"Telling the Truth Without Written Authorization"
Republicans see that as a violation, including in schools.
paleotn
(17,781 posts)tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)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)Exactly. Wouldnt want photo, audio, or video evidence to get out that might make the school and the district look bad.
elleng
(130,156 posts)SCHOOL? TEACHERS?
LisaM
(27,762 posts)I don't, however, think this is the right time to evoke it.
jayfish
(10,035 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Same in many parts of TN. Students take a pix of someone who assaulted them for identification, take pix to admin (only!) & boom. Suspended. 🤬🤬🤬
elleng
(130,156 posts)paleotn
(17,781 posts)mwooldri
(10,291 posts)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)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?
louis-t
(23,199 posts)Where saving lives is punishable by ostracism.
BamaRefugee
(3,476 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)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)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.
aggiesal
(8,864 posts)ancianita
(35,816 posts)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)ancianita
(35,816 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)ancianita
(35,816 posts)bluestarone
(16,722 posts)PULL their kids OUT of THIS school!!! I sure as hell would!!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Doubt that many will be pulling their kids out of school.
bluestarone
(16,722 posts)Will they feel the same AFTER their kids get Covid? How can they NOT CARE about their kids?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)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.
ResistantAmerican17
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Blue_true
(31,261 posts)ResistantAmerican17
(3,777 posts)No gender reference in the post...
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)It isnt surprising that a girl did the expose.
CatWoman
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Codeine
(25,586 posts)Hip2bSquare
(291 posts)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)...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.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,790 posts)JT45242
(2,173 posts)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)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)<a href="https://t.co/IvorqIdFlg">https://t.co/IvorqIdFlg</a></p> Frank LoMonte (@FrankLoMonte) <a href="
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BadgerMom
(2,766 posts)Those folks at the ACLU have had to work nonstop since 2017.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)"...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.
bringthePaine
(1,726 posts)IronLionZion
(45,265 posts)Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)tinrobot
(10,848 posts)Not to mention his family.
Might be the best thing that ever happened to him.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)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!
OverBurn
(935 posts)budkin
(6,691 posts)Is basically what it comes down to.
riversedge
(69,730 posts)All this is very interesting