Reply #88: Off topic ad hominem duly noted.

[noamnety]

It's clear it would be a criminal offense - with no question about privacy violations - and COMPLETELY indefensible if a private person put a video camera in my bedroom without my knowledge for the purpose of having the ability to spy on me in case something they loaned me was reported stolen.

For some inexplicable reason, you've been repeatedly defending the school - as if the fact that they are a public school (government employees) somehow makes this more okay.

There's a theme of disbelief on your part beginning with you not believing the story in the first place, then believing they only did it a few times just enough to recover stolen goods, now the story apparently is that yeah, they were looking at naked pictures of kids but it was somehow more okay, or should be more okay to the children involved because they didn't enjoy it.

I get the sense you are giving them a pass or white knighting for them because you can't bear to criticize any aspect of public schools or admit that sometimes their actions are horrific, criminal, and damaging to kids. That can happen anytime there is a person in authority - they can abuse it whether they are police, school officials (at any sort of school), priests, etc.

A comment that stuck with me from a friend's blog a few years back was that Americans have a stunning ability to identify not with victims and minorities, but with their oppressors. I see that in the way we talk about immigrants in this country. And I see it in the way you have reacted to this case all along, looking at whose rights you are most concerned with - teens who have had their trust violated in ways that are likely to create lifelong issues with trust and feeling violated, or the people who violated that trust.