Reply #19: Exactly. Are they in a bubble? With the sexting stories and the perennial

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stories of male school employees drilling peepholes into the girls' showers, one would think that these idiots would have been able to draw a parallel and thought, "Gosh, maybe spying on kids AT HOME in their BEDROOMS isn't such a good idea, legally or morally!" It doesn't seem like much of a stretch to me, but then...

That's why I suspect there have been lots of filming of kids in their bedrooms, and that there are a couple of peeping Toms who started all this off.

Another point -- if the school system is going to claim that someone reported the laptop stolen and that's why they turned the webcam on, then one assumes the parents already knew filming was to take place -- either through the fact that they and their child reported the stolen laptop or the school admin called them to confirm with the parents that the laptop was stolen. Why, if this is what happened, isn't there a paper trail? At the very least, a signed statement from the parent(s) that it had been stolen? And why, if you're webcamming to discover the location of the laptop, wouldn't you just show the parents the film to inform them that the laptop wasn't lost, but was in the kid's room somewhere? Better yet, if the admins feel the kid had drugs, why not call the parents in and show them the film that they had taken when looking for the lost laptop, and let the parents draw their own conclusions or tell the admins, "Oh, those are his Ike and Mike candies, not drugs"? These sleazebags are trying desperately to cover their asses, but it won't work.

Some ppl have been spying on these kids for a long time, have gotten so used to it (and so puffed up with authoritarianism) that they think it's OK -- to the point that they are brazen enough to haul a kid in and show him a pic of him in HIS OWN BEDROOM and accuse him of running drugs.