Snapchat’s automated system flagged a private DM to three contacts and triggered an FBI alert in under 60 minutes, ending her teaching career

  • artyom@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like “should I shoot him” with a gun emoji.

    Yeah not getting any sympathy from me on that one…

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          2 months ago

          Somebody report Bill Watterson for threatening children.

          Seriously, I’ve never met an involved parent (or any other child caretaker) who didn’t admit to moments of hyperbole like this, even if only internally. You’re just being a judgemental prick.

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            2 months ago

            That’s not a threat, it’s a public comic. I’m not judging anyone, but you have to look at it from the POV of law enforcement. If they saw a comment like this and did nothing, and something actually happened, they’d be absolutely crucified for “ignoring red flags”.

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              2 months ago

              Did we just move the goalposts from ‘nobody can make jokes like this’ to ‘police have to investigate since they got a report’?

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                2 months ago

                We didn’t move anything, the statement I made was that they get no sympathy from me.

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                  2 months ago

                  The implication there of course being that she’s in the wrong, hence why she doesn’t deserve any sympathy for having her life destroyed over a dark joke.

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                    2 months ago

                    The implication there of course being that she’s in the wrong

                    Because she is.

                    having her life destroyed over a dark joke

                    Volpe was arrested for disorderly conduct, held overnight at Tazewell County Jail, and released on $0 bond under Illinois’s SAFE-T Act. No formal court charges were filed. Her student-teaching placement was terminated.

                    That’s a long long way from “having her life destroyed”.

                • subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  2 months ago

                  Apparently not you, cause i guarantee that every teacher with experience has had at least one student that turned their humor dark.

                  • artyom@piefed.social
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                    2 months ago

                    No, as I said previously, I know lots of teachers. I have one in my immediate family. You can keep insisting for some weird reason that I don’t, but it’s not a good look, because you don’t know anything about me.