"It just showed up of our teacher with a bra on, but most of her breast showing,"

Was it worse than this?

I wonder what will happen to them when they want to do a paper on breast cancer?

This is a level of stupidity. Just the same as charging the
flight attendant because the cop caused a negligent discharge.

@ Jim P.
Dude, do you really think the teacher would have been as shapely as the victorias secret model that you have linked to? I'm guessing the problem would have been that the teacher would have been so damn ugly that her photo would have caused people to puke.

The kids will be punished for causing embarassment to the school and to a union member. It is who the schoo cares about, not the students and not right/wrong. Since there are enough laws that make no sense that the kids will be guilty of something, which the school will pursue. But they will only mildly go after the teacher for appearances sake.

At least they are teaching the kids a valuable lesson; never, under any circumstance, trust the authorities because they are not there to help you, they are only there to bust you and cover their own asses.

The purpose of public schools is to produce compliant citizens. Education is incidental.

With fellows like Joe J, Assholio and MarkD already speaking my thoughts, i'll only add: incidentally, the kids have done got some education here.

Ummm, due to privacy laws, the teacher's side of this isn't getting out. Local information says the teacher was using the icloud and the devices (school ipad and her personal iphone) were synched somehow and she did not know it. It's probable that the boys were the ones who synched the devices, basically hacking her unsecured iphone. Again, she can not defend herself due to our laws concerning minors in school.

Granted that the technology is smarter than most of us, still the teacher should be wiser in the use of technology that she is supposed to supervise. But she didn't intend the crossover of her personal items. She can't say anything so only the boys' version is in the news. The boys claim the pic "just popped up" by pushing one button and all i-device users know that isn't accurate.

The picture is a shot from waist to neck only. She is wearing a bra. So there was no more exposure than a bikini shot. It was not topless or nude as some of the media has stated.

Tempest in a teapot. Send them ALL home for 2 days and forget it.

So, amuse, you are suggesting punishing students for something there is no proof of, because the teacher must be too stupid to work newfangled technology?

Does that ACTUALLY make sense to you, or is this more about teen boys always being guilty?

Perhaps they even are, but then the forensics of the devices should show that.

When dealing with such electronics, there are often ways to figure things out, right down to who is on a device or what time a sync happened.

This would have had me in full *Mama Dragon* mode. I would have gone straight to the Principal and breathed fire, demanding that he either show me where in the school rules and regs it says that my child, using a piece of equipment that *my* tax dollars paid for, for the express purpose of educating him, was wrong to point out that the TEACHER was using it inappropriately.

If the Principal gave me the run around, I would up the anti and sue the school and the teacher for distributing inappropriate material on school owned electronics, and demand an audit of *all* school computers.

Wonder how many other teachers are downloading things they should not be? I'd love to find out. I'd get the most bloodthirsty shark of a lawyer I could find to rip that school's dirty little secrets out into the open.

In a "progressive" institution, whether something someone did was right or wrong, good or evil, does not depend on the nature of the act itself, but on who did it.

I'm quoting that on Facebook Ken R. Well said.

I'm confused as to what these boys are actually supposed to have done?

They didn't:

1. Take the picture
2. Share the picture
3. Load the picture on there

All they did was notify the administration and turn in the device.

What possible policy could they have violated in any way?

Joe J nailed it: Dear Leader was embarrassed, so someone much be punished.

And yeah, those boys were taught a lesson. Not the one the school intended to teach, but it was definitely a lesson.

Here's what I suspect happened. Teacher was issued an iPad for the classroom to use. Since the classroom gets to use it, the tablet was unlocked. But, it her downtime, she wanted to play Angry Birds (or something) on the larger screen rather than her iPhone. So she logs onto her iTunes account on the school's iPad to get the app she's already paid for. Being too clueless to understand the technology and how Apple sets things up, she unknowingly also logged onto her iCloud account. The two are linked. So every pic she took on her iPhone was d/l to the school's iPad.

Having been exposed for doing something really dumb, the school naturally had to punish the kids.

I'm local on this one. Word on the street (from a teacher in the system) is that the photo was a medical photo documenting a mole the teacher was having removed. It showed cleavage and bra (due to locale of mole)but she also had her shirt on. Less than bikini exposure and certainly not a sexting shot-this is an older woman.
Now the boys. They had all just returned from a suspension from this teacher. They went to unapproved apps to find the her iphone pics in the cloud. They uploaded the picture to a social network site and were in midst of creating a FB page under the teacher's name to post the picture when they were caught.

I can't believe how you witches want to fry the teacher without even a fair hearing. Must be a bunch of heliocopter Moms with special precious blossoms that never screw up commenting on this one. I still call it much ado about not much. The boys had malicious intent and the teacher is techno-illiterate, but not trying to seduce any kids. Here's the press release.

ANDERSON COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORPORATION
PRESS RELEASE On Monday, October 15, 2012, there was an event at Highland Middle School in which students viewed a picture of a teacher on the teacher’s school-owned IPad.
While Federal and State law prohibit the School Corporation from disclosing precise information as to the identities and any actions the School Corporation undertook in connection with students and personnel, the School Corporation feels a need to clarify, as best the School Corporation legally can, the events. The School
Corporation feels a need since there has been numerous versions of what occurred on Monday. A teacher gave certain students access to a school-owned IPad, which had been assigned to her, for a precise purpose of working within two (2) different applications. The students explored the IPad and went to unauthorized applications, one of which was IPhotos.
Unbeknownst to the teacher, a picture which was on the teacher’s personal cellphone had been stored in ICloud and therefore streamed to her school-owned IPad. That picture was not a topless picture, not a nude picture, nor any pornographic material. The Anderson Police Department has investigated the issue and concluded that the picture was not pornographic and there was no criminal behavior.
IPads are new for teachers this year and were provided for enhanced delivery of instruction. Following the events that occurred Monday, the School Corporation will establish stricter protocols in connection with students having access to school-owned computers and the connectability of those devices to personally-owned compatible Apple products.

amuse +1

I will wait to see how many excuses you got from the internet warriors.....