A 15-year-old says she was humiliated by a teacher who showed an enlarged picture of her in a bikini to more than 100 other students during a school assembly.
Children at Eggbuckland Community College in Plymouth, Devon, were shown the photograph taken from her Facebook profile to illustrate the pitfalls of posting private images online.
Unknown to the schoolgirl, who has not been named, staff had taken her swimwear photo off the internet. It was blown up and added to a portfolio of other pictures then shown during a packed school assembly.
The shock tactic at the 1327-pupil specialist arts school left the girl distraught.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2782126/Schoolgirl-15-humiliated-teacher-showed-picture-bikini-100-fellow-pupils-demonstrate-dangers-social-networks.html#ixzz3HEnGftaS
If it happened at assembly, surely the head teacher must have been involved. Could the pupil not have been talked to privately and warned that her Facebook profile was not on the privacy setting, if that was deemed so important? It makes you wonder about some teachers. Perhaps there are a few who should never be trusted with confidential information about pupils, and their families, which they now can access from school databases at the click of a mouse.
As well as some admirable ones, I`ve certainly met a few vindictive teachers in my time who didn`t seem to know where to draw the line. Overall I suspect there`s more to be concerned about in a school database, than there is about any image, freely chosen, and placed on a Facebook page.
I wonder if the incident was documented in the girl`s file. It would probably make interesting reading and I certainly would advise the girl to take out a data subject access request, just in case.
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