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netcrimes) was scheduled to give several talks to both students and parents at Greely Middle School in Cumberland, Maine. She talks about cyber bullying, privacy online, and that sort of thing. One of the things she did before this talk was do some searching online and pulled up Myspace pages and the like of several students, to show how easy it is to find this stuff, and how anyone can view it. As expected, the students were shocked that Jayne found this, which was the intent of the presentation. :-)
Well, one of the things that Jayne pulled up was an online "hate group" directed at one of the teachers. This caused quite a bit of a stir among both the students and the teachers. Not surprisingly, the group is now "private".
So, after giving one of the talks, Jayne gets called into the Principal's office. No, really. The conversation went something like this (and yes, I'm taking some artistic license):
Jayne's full account can be read over here.
The end result is that we have a middle school principal who won't even admit that her school has a problem. I cannot help but wonder if it is head-in-the-sand attitudes like this that lends itself to school violence.
netcrimes) was scheduled to give several talks to both students and parents at Greely Middle School in Cumberland, Maine. She talks about cyber bullying, privacy online, and that sort of thing. One of the things she did before this talk was do some searching online and pulled up Myspace pages and the like of several students, to show how easy it is to find this stuff, and how anyone can view it. As expected, the students were shocked that Jayne found this, which was the intent of the presentation. :-)Well, one of the things that Jayne pulled up was an online "hate group" directed at one of the teachers. This caused quite a bit of a stir among both the students and the teachers. Not surprisingly, the group is now "private".
So, after giving one of the talks, Jayne gets called into the Principal's office. No, really. The conversation went something like this (and yes, I'm taking some artistic license):
Kim Brandt: "I'm cancelling the rest of your talks."
Jayne: "What?"
Kim Brandt: "That poor teacher is devastated that some of his students actually don't like him! And I'm afraid that parents are going to come after you with pitchforks!"
Jayne: "I can take care of myself. BTW, did you know about this group?"
Kim Brandt: "No."
Jayne: "Well, you need to know about this group, before it gets any worse."
Kim Brandt: "LA LA LA! I can't hear you!"
Jayne: "Do you still want me to give my talk to the parents tonight?"
Kim Brandt: "Get out!"
Jayne: "What?"
Kim Brandt: "That poor teacher is devastated that some of his students actually don't like him! And I'm afraid that parents are going to come after you with pitchforks!"
Jayne: "I can take care of myself. BTW, did you know about this group?"
Kim Brandt: "No."
Jayne: "Well, you need to know about this group, before it gets any worse."
Kim Brandt: "LA LA LA! I can't hear you!"
Jayne: "Do you still want me to give my talk to the parents tonight?"
Kim Brandt: "Get out!"
Jayne's full account can be read over here.
The end result is that we have a middle school principal who won't even admit that her school has a problem. I cannot help but wonder if it is head-in-the-sand attitudes like this that lends itself to school violence.