There is a lot of that going on in this thread. Put the worst interpretation on things, the teacher is a pervert and the boy who propagated the images is a peeping Tom, and a pornography publisher. And an abuser of the person who was incautious with her phone.Deep breath.
Privacy just is not what it was, and people generally are cooperating in the degradation of their own privacy. Facebook. And so forth . . .Nobody much made nude photos of themselves when the pictures would have to be developed and printed by people not known to and trusted by the photographer. That has changed, but people just do not treat their cell phone as if it were a loaded gun - and if they have embarrassing photos on it, they should. It is therefore the case that the very existence of the digital camera is producing culture shock, wherein people have been given the ability to get outside the guiderails, and not everyone handles that well.
The principal went all in on CYA, and the pupil must not be allowed to grow up thinking that destroying peoples’ livelihood by intruding into their private information and exploiting it against her is an exploit he can celebrate. OTOH we do not want to write him off as garbage, either. He was an unsupervised child who came upon a loaded gun. What did anyone expect? Clearly he had an issue with that teacher - but is there actually a teacher anywhere who never had a student get mad at them???
And he apparently never learned a lesson that was fundamental when I was a kid: DON'T MESS WITH OTHER PEOPLES' STUFF.
He was an unsupervised child who came upon a loaded gun.
Nah the teachers handheld computer aka smart phone was is no different than her pocket book/handbag or your wallet and this kid was well aware of that as most are.
He is/was a wise ass little POS and has “issues” with a whole lot more than just this teacher.
I hope this teacher gets council and proves to this kid and his parent(s) there is authority and there is you.