A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her
The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school. But the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them. The principal had doubts they even existed.
Among the kids, the pictures were still spreading. When the 13-year-old girl stepped onto the Lafourche Parish school bus at the end of the day, a classmate was showing one of them to a friend.
“That’s when I got angry,” the eighth grader recalled at her discipline hearing.
Fed up, she attacked a boy on the bus, inviting others to join her. She was kicked out of Sixth Ward Middle School for more than 10 weeks and sent to an alternative school. She said the boy whom she and her friends suspected of creating the images wasn’t sent to that alternative school with her. The 13-year-old girl’s attorneys allege he avoided school discipline altogether.
Well the police apparently found additional images depicting eight individuals and arrested two boys, so it seems like some tactic along these lines worked. Meanwhile the school administrators threw up their hands, called the situation “deeply complex,” and did nothing but punish the victim.
Definitely agree that Snapchat is bad along with most social media and especially with kids. I can’t imagine what it’s like growing up in the current era with all this extra bullshit. I was lucky enough to grow up at a time where people didnt have the internet.
I’m a school bus driver and a few years ago I had an incident where some kids threw food at me on the bus (goldfish crackers, of all things). Another kid made a video recording of the incident and posted it online and that caused a huge kerfuffle at the school. The admins couldn’t understand that I didn’t give even the tiniest fuck about the posted video.
“So it doesn’t piss you off that they posted a video? Because now we have to do something about it. And THAT doesn’t that bother you at all?”
Your comment made me realize something. The week prior to this some of the kids threatened to kill me (via dad’s gun and wrapping a plastic bag around my head) and the school did nothing. The goldfish-flinging incident got the kids suspended from the bus for a week. It didn’t occur to me until now that perhaps the admins only did something because of the posted video.