Georgia students suspended for taking photos of crowded school hallway

[JohnDB]

Then they need not be in school or in public. The idea that cameras aren’t everywhere is silly. Every kid in high school and probably middle school has a camera.

The point of the thread is that none of the kids is safe in this setting re: COVID.

But that is why the rule exists about school pictures being posted on social media.
Parental consent to pics.

And I agree with you that the kids in school aren't safe.

 

[cow451]

But that is why the rule exists about school pictures being posted on social media.
Parental consent to pics.

And I agree with you that the kids in school aren't safe.

Had the kid not taken video, the danger to all would have been covered up. Can’t have everything.

 

[Hank77]

Foster children are not usually in sports...

I didn't say they were in sports. Are you saying that foster kids aren't allowed to attend sporting events such as football games, basketball games, etc.?

 

[JohnDB]

I didn't say they were in sports. Are you saying that foster kids aren't allowed to attend sporting events such as football games, basketball games, etc.?

Generally speaking "no"...but often they don't want to go either. Plus foster parents usually don't take them if they even wanted to go.

Just saying... you really need to get involved with the foster care system to understand why. They are in desperate need of big brothers and big sisters.

 

[JohnDB]

Had the kid not taken video, the danger to all would have been covered up. Can’t have everything.

Oh it wasn't covered up...it just hadn't reached People in Australia yet until the photos were taken

 

[cow451]

Generally speaking "no"...but often they don't want to go either. Plus foster parents usually don't take them if they even wanted to go.

Just saying... you really need to get involved with the foster care system to understand why. They are in desperate need of big brothers and big sisters.

I’ve worked with foster kids and they are kids. I’d like to see so-called Pro-life folks give half a flip about kids after they are born.

Foster kids are shuffled around a lot, which makes it hard to be involved in extracurricular activity.

 

[JohnDB]

I’ve worked with foster kids and they are kids. I’d like to see so-called Pro-life folks give half a flip about kids after they are born.

Foster kids are shuffled around a lot, which makes it hard to be involved in extracurricular activity.

Not since the Brian A settlement...
They get a max of three homes unless adopted and then they get a fourth but the last one is permanent.

 

[Hank77]

I’ve worked with foster kids and they are kids. I’d like to see so-called Pro-life folks give half a flip about kids after they are born.

Foster kids are shuffled around a lot, which makes it hard to be involved in extracurricular activity.

We have two families in our town that have foster kids. One of them has been able to adopt one of theirs. The other family has four foster kids. They have had them since they were all pre-school age I think. Now they are all in school and they are in sports and do all the things most kids are allowed to do. Both of these families are Christian families. We've known this last couple since they were in school with our kids. They couldn't have kids of their own but they had a lot of love to give.

 

[TLK Valentine]

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At least two students say they have been suspended at North Paulding High School in Georgia for posting photos of crowded hallways that went viral on Twitter.

One of the teens who posted photos, 15-year-old Hannah Watters, told BuzzFeed News she received a five-day, out-of-school suspension for posting one photo and one video on Twitter.

Watters said she was pulled into the school's office around noon on Wednesday and was told she had violated the student code of conduct.

"The policies I broke stated that I used my phone in the hallway without permission, used my phone for social media, and posting pictures of minors without consent," she said.

On Wednesday, an intercom announcement at the school from principal Gabe Carmona said any student found criticizing the school on social media could face discipline.

5 day suspension for taking a picture of students (almost entirely from the back) at a school? Discipline for criticizing the school? This is baloney.

Great... Let's suspend more students until they're all safe at home.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Great... Let's suspend more students until they're all safe at home.

They have to die like everyone else.

Update, Aug. 7, 2020, at 11:35 a.m.: Hannah Watters tweeted Friday morning that the school had notified her that they had “deleted” her suspension.

 

[JohnDB]

They have to die like everyone else.

Update, Aug. 7, 2020, at 11:35 a.m.: Hannah Watters tweeted Friday morning that the school had notified her that they had “deleted” her suspension.

I wonder if her parents deleted her attendance at the school... home school is looking better and better all the time.

 

[cow451]

They have to die like everyone else.

Update, Aug. 7, 2020, at 11:35 a.m.: Hannah Watters tweeted Friday morning that the school had notified her that they had “deleted” her suspension.

That was after a replay review of the footage..

 

[Caliban]

Get ready for cases to rise in these communities.

 

[KCfromNC]

They have to die like everyone else.

Update, Aug. 7, 2020, at 11:35 a.m.: Hannah Watters tweeted Friday morning that the school had notified her that they had “deleted” her suspension.

One might imagine that the district's lawyers had a long chat with school administrators about the whole "how not to get sued" thing.

 

[durangodawood]

But that is why the rule exists about school pictures being posted on social media.
Parental consent to pics.

And I agree with you that the kids in school aren't safe.

Kids cannot post pictures of each other without asking everyone's parents first? Really?

 

[JohnDB]

Kids cannot post pictures of each other without asking everyone's parents first? Really?

Not while inside of the confines of school property and functions.

 

[durangodawood]

Not while inside of the confines of school property and functions.

What magical transformation happens to them when the leave school where allasudden parents consent evaporates?

 

[JohnDB]

What magical transformation happens to them when the leave school where allasudden parents consent evaporates?

A point of where parents are the ones responsible and the school is no longer responsible for the conduct of the children.

 

[durangodawood]

A point of where parents are the ones responsible and the school is no longer responsible for the conduct of the children.

But you said the issue for in school pics is parental consent. Why would that be the case if they arent responsible in that setting?

 

[JohnDB]

But you said the issue for in school pics is parental consent. Why would that be the case if they arent responsible in that setting?

Ok...so instead of teaching reading, writing, 'rithmatic, and history you now want them to handle the parental permissions for who is and who is not allowed to be photographed with cell phones and by whom and when and where and which pictures can be published on social media?

The lawyers simply won't allow this.
Cyber bullying is unfortunately a common thing...and cell phone cameras are in the middle of it all. So where the children in this school are actually allowed to possess a cell phone on school property (most don't) the children are forbidden to take pictures and post them on social media inside of school property.