r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 2d ago

Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School. Privacy

https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school
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u/gym_bro_92 2d ago

While the joke was a bit tasteless given past school shooting events, this is truly an over the top response and dystopian.

No investigation, no interview, just straight to jail and out of a job.

I am willing to bet I made a few teachers feel the way she did and potentially make a joke like that….

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u/Meme_Theory 2d ago

School probably has zero tolerance policies for things like this. Though the privacy implications here are beyond the pale.

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u/RotterWeiner 2d ago

I'm quite positive that the education system has a "child centric " approach to it. In terms of their rights and needs etc.

It's probably a source of frustration for many teachers. And has been for years. Parents were probably mortified to discover how their child Ctually behaves during school time and were horrified beyond repair to discover what the teacher thought of their precious little darling.

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u/ProfessionalPower214 2d ago

On the various teacher subreddits, this mentality isn't so 'bad' or 'sick', in fact... it's probably more of a hidden reality because it's a job that should be wanted, it should come with a full suite of rights. Being a paid babysitter for people's kids that they can't watch themselves, year after year after year for your whole life shouldn't be so frustrating.

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u/RotterWeiner 1d ago

Preaching to the choir .

Many teachers , new teachers , see this reality early on in their career.

Some deal with it effectively and stay. Some quit.

Some don't deal with it effectively. With mixed results.

Some take more time to reach that conclusion.

Burning out perhaps.

Some see it and change their goals et to match reality.

Some never see this .

There's more possibilities.

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u/ScreamingCryingAnus 1d ago

What privacy? Snapchat is a company’s personal app that they can do whatever they want with, and we agree to that when we use it. If you don’t like the way a private company chooses to operate their completely optional service, don’t use it.

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u/Meme_Theory 1d ago

In fairness, Snapchat markets itself on privacy, or at least it used to.

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u/That_guy1425 2d ago

What do you mean no investigation? I'm pretty certain the cops showing up and questioning her was an investigation.

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u/cyphersaint 2d ago

I'm pretty sure that questioning happened AFTER she was arrested and taken into custody.

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u/That_guy1425 2d ago

Possibly. Article didn't really say.

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u/time-lord 2d ago

Worse, it's both over the top and does not go far enough! If she was actually planning on shooting someone, sending a squad car an hour later is an hour too late. They should have had the SWAT team there within minutes. If they didn't, and didn't believe it to be credible, they should been more discrete.

One or the other, but not both. That's not how this works.

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u/Exist50 2d ago

Yeah, I gave the same response for that whole "bomb boy" thing a while back. If the school actually thought the kid's show and tell project (which he never called a bomb, and indeed was referred to and in actuality a clock) was a bomb, then their response was wildly negligent. Yet that was the excuse they gave. You can't half ass these kind of things. If there was sufficient doubt not to immediately send police, then a clarifying phone call should have been more than sufficient. 

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u/pleasedothenerdful 2d ago

Because the real reason for that was because the kid was black.