Students suspended after teacher projects porn to class

[The Straight Story]

Two Kansas high school students were suspended after they took a picture of a pornographic photo projected in their classroom from their teacher's laptop.

Administrators at J.C. Harmon High School gave the students two-day suspensions for violating the school's technology use policy, which bans students from using cell phones in class, KCTV-TV in Kansas City, Kansas, reports.

One of the parents, Karen Winkel, told KCTV, "I believe my son got in trouble because the school was trying to hide something."

Winkel's son shared the cell phone photo with a friend, who then posted it on Facebook.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/05/02/porn-suspension-high-school/8609291/

[Coventina]

1. Obviously there is much more to this story than what is provided in USA Today

The article begs the question: Why was there a pornographic image being displayed to a high school class?

Obviously we need the answer to that question before forming an opinion about the punishment given to the students.

I'm not saying this is what happened, BUT, at our college, it has happened in the past that students have accessed the computers in the classroom and displayed inappropriate things.

If the teacher had left the computer unattended (stepped out of the room, was helping a student and had his/her back turned) it is possible that a student displayed the image and the other students took photos of the prank.

[The Straight Story]

2. We pass out condoms/etc in school but suspend kids for nude pics

Makes no sense.

I keep trying to rationalize it in some way but just drawing a blank here. Maybe someone else will enlighten me.

[Coventina]

4. Well, we only have one part of the story.

I *hope* that nudity is not the issue (I show nudes to my students all the time - I teach Art History).

But *if* (and I'm only speculating here) the issue was not so much the image itself, but the unauthorized access to the teacher's computer that was the primary issue, then maybe the school was trying to send the message that gloating over the success of the prank (thus encouraging other to do it) is not acceptable.

But, until the full story emerges, all we're doing is guessing.

[House of Roberts]

3. USA Today misreported this.

They made it sound deliberate, while the source story made the projecting of the image inadvertent.

Recording the image created evidence against the school. Punishing the students is the same as cops beating up citizens and arresting them for videoing the cops behaving inappropriately.

[whistler162]

5. Please, step away from the keyboard......

2 days suspension for violating the schools rule against cell phone use ISN"T the same as police beating on citizens and then arresting them!

[House of Roberts]

6. Authority misusing power to avoid accountablility

is the same. Have a nice day.

[etherealtruth]

8. It certainly is! n/t

[Bigmack]

7. I once projected a topless female photo to my HS class...

...back in the late 1980's, when computers were just coming into the classroom.

I had my class in the computer lab and was showing them that we had a net nanny that would keep them from loading porn.

I asked... What's a good image to look for that the nanny will stop? Kid said: "Pamela Anderson nude"...I said: "Great example... watch how the nanny stops it."

You can see where this is going....

The image loaded from the top down, and I was waiting...waiting for it to stop. It didn't.
Had to manually stop the load.

So... I showed Pamela Anderson's large breasts to a classroom full of HS seniors who were probably having sex by then.

A mom called... and I laughed!

[jakeXT]

9. Pamela Anderson was discovered in 89

I think we are more in mid 90's territory.

[Bigmack]

10. Yeah.... Tool Time around '90 and Baywatch a few years later. nt