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A South Carolina high school teacher has sued (PDF) the school district that employed her after she was pushed to resign when a student grabbed racy pictures off her smartphone.
Leigh Anne Arthur resigned from her job earlier last month when she was told she would face disciplinary proceedings because a student grabbed photos off her phone while she was on a routine hall patrol.
At the time, Arthur complained that she, rather than the student, was the one being punished. The student shared the racy pictures of Arthur with his friends as well. Arthur said the pictures were a Valentine's Day gift for her husband, and she forgot to erase them from her phone.
"He knows right from wrong," she said of the student in a TV interview shortly after the incident. "Where are you putting the moral of the student?"
The 16-year-old student was hit with felony charges the following week.
In Arthur's lawsuit, filed Friday, she described how she left her phone on her desk during a five-minute interval in between classes. Without her permission, the student opened her photo app, then took pictures of her pictures with his own phone and shared them via social media.
takyon: Many students signed a petition to rehire the teacher.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 28 2016, @06:19AM
And the teacher brought her ass and vagina to the classroom as well... covered by layers of fabric.
Should a student yank on the clothing hard enough to cause the fabric to fall off, should the teacher be held responsible for that too?
What I am getting at is it took some doing for the students to violate her personal property... it wasn't like she left her phone out with that picture on its display.
I could hold her a bit on the soddish side for even having those in her possession on school premises, even though they were not on public display, just as I may hold a male teacher a bit soddish for carrying around a nudie pic of his wife in his wallet.
I would hold that the embarrassment of this whole affair to be more than adequate punishment for the act of soddishness.