Morgan Rousseau reports:
High school students in Bedford, New Hampshire, allegedly snapped inappropriate photographs of girls’ body parts, graded them, and circulated them to their peers in the form of trading cards, according to school officials.
In a message to families Friday, Superintendent Michael Fournier said a group of freshman and sophomore boys had taken pictures of 11th and 12th-grade girls without their knowledge.
Read more at Boston.com, but before you do read more, ask yourself what you think appropriate consequences or incident response would be. Is this something that should be handled by the school and only involve the school, or is this something that should be referred to law enforcement, or both? What do you think?
Ok, now go read the rest of the news report.
h/t, Joe Cadillic
I think it should be addressed by the school with the parents and get their input on appropriate punishment. Perhaps a report of the incident to the police so they have a non-criminal record of the behavior for future reference if further incidents should occur. This would serve as a deterrent of future behavior without leaving a criminal record that might lead to hopelessness and reoccurring offenses.
Key information: In those photos, girls wore swimsuits, shorts, or tops. Jozokos said at least two students received the images, though more may have seen the photos through the Snapchat app.
So, these were not lewd photos. They were objectification photos. Basically, like the sports illustrated post-Superbowl swimsuit magazine.
If there was any nudity involved, I’d turn it over to police, but since there wasn’t, it is something for parents and the school to address. I don’t know that any punishment would work. Boys have been doing similar things for 5000+ years. We are animals, after all.