School upsets student by showing a picture in assembly to highlight facebook privacy

[peteyt]

A school in Plymouth have upset a student by showing a picture taken from her Facebook to highlight the dangers of Facebook and other online services.

The teacher from the Eggbuckland community college, took the photo of the student in a Bikini to show her lack of privacy settings, highlighting the fact many students don't even realise their profiles are set to public, meaning anyone can access anything they've uploaded.

As to be expected, the student's mother isn't happy, complaining to ofsted and stating her daughter is actually a tomboy who rarely uses makeup and has no piercings so the picture wasn't really a proper representation of her.

What do you think? Online there seems to be a mixed reaction. The general opinion seems to be that the idea of teaching privacy was a good idea, but it should never have been done in the way it was with some believing that actually it was her own fault for not changing her settings. It comes at a time when privacy is important especially due to the recent celebrity nude pictures, but will people just ignore the warnings until something embarrassing like this happens?


http://metro.co.uk/2014/10/06/teenagers-anger-as-teacher-shows-picture-of-her-in-a-bikini-during-assembly-4894557/

[lemons]

that's a VERY nasty thing to do poor girl

[scottish]

I don't get that, the school found a picture she publicly posted on a social media website, then her mother complains that the picture that her daughter uploaded isn't a proper representation of her?

Then don't take pictures of yourself in a bikini and upload it to facebook if it's not a proper representation of you, you silly cow.

It's the girls fault for not having the appropriate privacy settings, not the college or school for finding something that's publicly posted.

[wixard]

it's weird for the school to single her out and display it in assembly though?

i doubt we're getting the full story because that just seems bizarre

[Mikey]

As said in the above post we don't know the full story and probably never will. On one hand what the school did was completely inappropriate and shouldn't of been done in the first place but on the other hand if she wasn't happy for her picture to be publicly seen then she either shouldn't of posted it or kept it private.

[scottish]

it's weird for the school to single her out and display it in assembly though?

i doubt we're getting the full story because that just seems bizarre

they probably just picked a student at random, or tried to find a picture that people wouldn't want everyone to see.

[Red]

That's act disgusting that they would single out and humiliate a 15 year old girl out like that in front of 100 people, and weird that they are looking so far back into photos uploaded a year ago! I feel so angry for her!!

[peteyt]

they probably just picked a student at random, or tried to find a picture that people wouldn't want everyone to see.

Which is the one thing that complicates matters. It's certainly partly her fault for putting the picture up and not having her profile setup safely but at the end of the day the schools actions are encouraging the one thing schools try to avoid, bullying.

It's like people who take nudes for their partners who then get blackmailed with them when the split up. Obviously we should try to avoid these situations by making sure people are aware of these kind of dangerous, but at the same time we want to avoid the other person seeming right. We need to tackle both sides - to show people its wrong while at the same time trying to make sure it never gets to that stage in the first place

[MKR&*42]

So what if it was shown to all... it is publicly viewable on her Facebook, if she didn't want people to see it then quite frankly she shouldn't post it. It amuses me when people complain after non private stuff from their facebook is leaked... next time don't post your life on there.

[MilksAreUs]

I'd feel so embarassed if a picture was shown in assembly of me wearing only little clothing. Wouldn't most people?

[Inseriousity.]

I find blaming someone's privacy settings quite gross tbh. Regardless of someone's privacy settings, unless you're deliberately doing stuff to gain attention (viral stunts etc) then you can assume that only your close circle of friends will ever look at your pictures, potential employers possibly, a rogue stalker possibly. Your teachers to humiliate you in an assembly? No.

Yes it's probably safer to have it set to private but that excuse doesn't justify being exposed like that! That poor girl must be getting tortured

[dbgtz]

I don't get that, the school found a picture she publicly posted on a social media website, then her mother complains that the picture that her daughter uploaded isn't a proper representation of her?

Then don't take pictures of yourself in a bikini and upload it to facebook if it's not a proper representation of you, you silly cow.

It's the girls fault for not having the appropriate privacy settings, not the college or school for finding something that's publicly posted.

I pretty much agree with this entirely. I don't get why she should at all feel embarrassed though. She's happy for everyone she has on Facebook to see and everyone who was physically near her to see at the time of the photo so what's actually so bad? The only odd thing about this is the fact some teacher Facebook stalked a bunch of pupils.

[The Don]

I pretty much agree with this entirely. I don't get why she should at all feel embarrassed though. She's happy for everyone she has on Facebook to see and everyone who was physically near her to see at the time of the photo so what's actually so bad? The only odd thing about this is the fact some teacher Facebook stalked a bunch of pupils.

Because she doesn't want to be bloody targetted in her assembly, especially by her teachers?! Absolutely crazy that people here are defending this.

[Aiden]

Not a very nice thing to do but she could of prevented it I guess...

[Kyle]

The it guy at the high school I went to sixth form at created a fake bebo account and added girls on it claiming that it highlighted much the same thing. Bebo. Lmfao.

This is wrong but the message is still an important one. Check your privacy


~~from phone

[Hannah]

While I totally agree that privacy should be dealt with and students that 'may not even know' are informed - this was the completely wrong way to go about it and it is totally unacceptable for teachers to go searching through Facebook for their students.

Were they not teaching the students, they wouldn't even know about them of their name - so would never have come across it were they not in that position.

I genuinely think that it's sickening that they were allowed to do that, singling out one student when they could have quite easily used a completely different example to demonstrate it.

[wixard]

So what if it was shown to all... it is publicly viewable on her Facebook, if she didn't want people to see it then quite frankly she shouldn't post it. It amuses me when people complain after non private stuff from their facebook is leaked... next time don't post your life on there.

if that was the case go through all your students who have public settings and pick a photo from each

it makes absolutely no sense that they singled out ONE student out of 100

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i actually find this mind boggling and don't think this can be true? does anyone else not find it really ******* weird

[Red]

They showed other photos tara but only hers was in her bikini and loads of people upload holiday snaps of them in a bikini Scott! They don't derserve to have it posted up in assembly! That teacher is an idiot, of course doing that is going to cause humiliation for the student.

[wixard]

OKAY this article makes so much more sense now, so she wasn't TARGETTED fair enough

yeah i still don't agree with them doing it, but at least i understand it now and how they ****** it up so bad

[GommeInc]

It could have been done privately between the school and pupil as it is a bit humiliating for her. It's typical of schools to not know how to handle private yet public social media and technology affairs. It's one area schools desperately need to look at to educate students.

[Plean]

She should Blaze on it.

[Jssy]

I feel like privacy needs to be tackled head on as cyber bullying is on the increase but this definitely isn't the correct way to go about it

[Matt]

The amount of teachers I've found on Facebook that show pictures of them with alcohol, hand gestures and stuff like that, isn't far of some of the stuff students are posting. Everyone does it so I think they were definitely wrong to target her, considering it is what so many people nowadays are doing. If they were going to use examples at all, they should've made sure it was no one that goes to that school or just use hypothetical examples.

[e5]

I don't get that, the school found a picture she publicly posted on a social media website, then her mother complains that the picture that her daughter uploaded isn't a proper representation of her?

Then don't take pictures of yourself in a bikini and upload it to facebook if it's not a proper representation of you, you silly cow.

It's the girls fault for not having the appropriate privacy settings, not the college or school for finding something that's publicly posted.

I think the whole point was the highlight that people aren't aware of the privacy settings/dont know how to do it and need to be more aware of them

[Lewis]

The girl's own fault.

Although I don't think they should've done only one person and excluded everyone else. They should've found a good amount of people and did it in a fast slideshow or something. Nevertheless, still the girl's fault.

[AgnesIO]

The amount of teachers I've found on Facebook that show pictures of them with alcohol, hand gestures and stuff like that, isn't far of some of the stuff students are posting. Everyone does it so I think they were definitely wrong to target her, considering it is what so many people nowadays are doing. If they were going to use examples at all, they should've made sure it was no one that goes to that school or just use hypothetical examples.

Pictures of teachers with.... alcohol? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Come on, there is evidently nothing wrong with that.

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On topic note; Whilst they should NOT have singled her out, I would see nothing wrong with it if they took say.... ten pictures (from different people). The fact is that the children will learn that way, but targeting one kid is a tad too extreme.

[Prosiary]

I feel so sorry for the girl, must be so humiliating. The teachers are ******* idiots.

[IzzyUhh]

thts actually so horrible, I'd hate it if tht happend to me I'd probs cry lmao
I told my mum about it and she said if tht was me she would go straight to school fuming

[RyRy]

As humiliating as it is, why did the school have to do that? Because parents take no responsibility for what their kids do on the Internet, therefore the school has to teach them. It's not their problem to deal with.

A mother complaining to ofsted may do something like give them a telling off, but the school has to come back and say parents, if you don't want us doing this, then do it yourselves. Just don't come crying to us when something bad happens.

[The Don]

As humiliating as it is, why did the school have to do that? Because parents take no responsibility for what their kids do on the Internet, therefore the school has to teach them. It's not their problem to deal with.

A mother complaining to ofsted may do something like give them a telling off, but the school has to come back and say parents, if you don't want us doing this, then do it yourselves. Just don't come crying to us when something bad happens.

Because it's not at all possible to highlight the dangers of a lack of online privacy without personally targeting your students... /s

My previous college gave us a lecturer and highlighted the dangers of it without flashing pictures of students in their bikinis.

[Red]

Don't even see the problem with having bikini pics. lol Loads of people go on holiday and post them on my fl :S I wouldn't want any of my pictures flashed up on the screen in a packed assmebly. She was singled out and the teacher's objective could have been been achieved without doing that. No one can fully control their privacy anyway. My profile is private yet this teacher could have got pictures of me from a friends profile who didn't have theirs!

[Matt]

Pictures of teachers with.... alcohol? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Come on, there is evidently nothing wrong with that.

What I'm saying is that teachers are hardly perfect either and I'm sure if a student was doing a presentation on internet safety or something along them lines and brought up a picture of a teacher, singling them out, they'd get into **** for it. There are plenty of other cases and examples they could've used to get the message across instead of targeting a student who they knew were going to be in that assembly/watching that presentation :)

[-:Undertaker:-]

Don't agree with using the picture like that but at the same time if you don't want certain images in the public sphere then don't post them on Facebook. The naked selfie leaks for example I cannot stand: don't take the risk.