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keags5496keags5496 member
in December 2010 Moms

I teach 8th grade science at an inner city public school.  I had a student approach me this morning and say that I was "instagram famous" and proceeded to show me a picture.  The picture was of me at a table leaning over to help a student with one of my students in the foreground (female) posing to make it look like she was grabbing my butt.

 I managed to find the picture using my own personal account (the student's wasn't set to private) and brought it down to administration.  The students involved were suspended, but I can't help but feel violated and frustrated.  I know that kids will be kids, but in an age where they have technology at their fingertips and know how to be sneaky I feel like I'm teaching in a mine field!

Add to that that I feel like a terrible teacher.  How could I not see them doing this?  In my defense, there was 2 of us in the room and neither of us noticed, but still....ugh...plus now I have to face these kiddos for the rest of the year and be professional about it.

No point to this other than to vent.  If you got this far here's a drink for you....I'm certainly having one.

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  • SugarSnap83SugarSnap83 member
    Holy crap! I can't even imagine! And you truly can not blame yourself for not seeing. You were helping a student, which was what you are supposed to do, not watch to make sure someone is not taking a picture of you! That shouldn't even be something on you
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  • jillybean800jillybean800 member

    Those little sh!ts.

    If you are helping a student with something else there is no way you can see what everyone is doing. There are up to 30 kids in classrooms! I'm glad they were suspended, and if I were you, I would go all crazy teacher on thei

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  • pitterpatter129pitterpatter129 member

    Oh man, that stinks.  I teach little kids, but it's a district wide policy up through high school that cell phones aren't allowed at school.  If a teacher sees one, it is confiscated and sent to campus police headquarters where a parent has t

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  • lrn327lrn327 member
    I'm no help but just wanted to say how sorry I am that it happened.  It sucks.  :-(
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  • kj07kj07 member

    Ugh.  Don't beat yourself up about missing it.  As much as they tried to convince us otherwise, teachers don't actually have eyes in the back of their head.

    I'm not a teacher, so take my advice with a grain of salt, but I think you need

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  • keags5496keags5496 member
    Thanks for the kind words. I'm up in the air about a chat with the class. I know they're all very aware of what happened and we are now out of school for a four day weekend. I'm leaning towards letting it lie and just talking about it if it comes up natur
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  • jarebearsmomjarebearsmom member
    imagekeags5496:
    Thanks for the kind words. I'm up in the air about a chat with the class. I know they're all very aware of what happened
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