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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) by jdavidb on Monday March 28 2016, @11:21PM
I just read the text of what he is being charged with and don't get how that is a crime, at least if the first amendment applies to states. Plus, if it is a crime, she is the victim, and I don't think it makes a lot of sense to hold the victim of a crime responsible - instead, it should be up to the victim to decide how much restitution to exact within legal limits after the alleged perpetrator is found guilty, which in this case would give her the choice of extracting zero restitution if that's what she wants.
Really I think people should secure their own data if they want it secure rather than trying to punish people for accessing it after the fact. If you made a security mistake, own it. Learn from it. And if you're a teacher - well, truth is maybe teachers should be the ones who know a little bit more about security, at least in the modern age. Or not. It ought to be up to parents who they want teaching their children and if they want her doing it, nobody should stop them.
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