Put the damn phone away in class.
Speaking technology-wise, yes - but some things are forever:
Kids are stupid
Dumbass.
Bad behavior, but this is RIDICULOUS.
Standard 16 yo bad behavior.
Huck Finn today would be on 3 medications and locked away forever in some facility.
This is wrong and it’s why there aren’t white kids anymore.
And that’s another part of it —the story wouldn’t work at all if the perp were, say, black:
“Too mean to ruin his whole life for just ONE slip-up...”
Ah, but for honkies it’s standard, now.
“Ben isn’t the victim in this story; the teacher (who declined comment for the Star story) is. The picture still exists, of course,...”
Well, we can’t determine guilt without see the pic.
The times they aren’t ‘a-changing.
The only new thing is the particular distribution mechanism (Snapchat) and the particular kind of camera (cellphone). There’s plenty of inappropriate & stupid kids do and always done.
Local kid threw an underage booze-heavy party whilst grandparents were away (she lived there). Cops appeared. The long & loud argument she had with a lady cop was ... entertaining. One notable/relevant exchange:
“He’s going into the Navy next week!”
“Not any more he’s not!”
Between that and other comments, this thread’s headline can be trivially altered to a long-recurring observation:
“Student’s inappropriate choice ends career, alters many lives.”
“Stupid is supposed to hurt.” Lurkers Grandfather.
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So the teacher didn’t sit like a lady, had a short enough skirt that something could be seen, and 16 year old athletes are horny and think about sex constantly?
Gosh, this should be in breaking news.
Nowdays, bunch of black hoods could cause all sorts of mayhem and, and, for racial “justice” reasons, get nowhere near the punishment that the football player — a politically incorrect person — had to endure.
Sounds like the kid has National Felon League potential! Dumb as a rock, inappropriate behavior - seems like a natural.
Props to his dad, if more parents were like that, there would be fewer incidents like this to report.
I read the entire article and can’t figure out what he did wrong.
Can anyone help me with that?
FTA .... Dr. Anne Lewis, a licensed counseling psychologist based in Fishers, said it is important to remember that the victim in this case is the teacher.
“She can’t control where that photo gets sent and that’s where the real violation comes in,” Lewis said. “That can have a traumatizing effect. Depending on how much anxiety it brings to her, it can change the type of clothes she wears to work. It takes away some of her freedom.”
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In the eyes of the typical liberal education system - poor Ben is a guilty as Al Franken or that Weinstein creep.
We did similar stuff at that age, 60 years ago.
I am glad I am now retired. Attitudes as to what is acceptable behaviour and consequences for non compliance are turning on a dime. Johnny Carson-esque banter and boorish behavior can and does result in ruined careers at work and in school in this day and age. Parents teach your sons well. Women should absolutely be respected not only in deed but in thought. Ah, but I was so much older then, but I’m younger than that now as go the old song lyrics.
This is why children are so vulnerable in High School and College. They are to immature.
A friend of mine, as a young Anthropology Prof., told of comely young female students, not much old than this kid. Some would sit on the front row and casually cross and uncross their legs. What’s up with that?
Good dad.
A cautionary tale
If the sexes were reversed, and a male teacher exposed himself to a underage female student what would the story be?