A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers.
A 13-year-old student was expelled from a Louisiana middle school after hitting a male classmate who she said created and shared a deepfake pornographic image of her, according to her family’s lawyers.
Schools with zero tolerance policies are bullshit.
Sometimes kids hit other kids. They’re figuring shit out.
Plus sometimes situations deserve a little violence.
Give a warning and expell the boy for the AI image instead. That does a hell of a lot more damage than a light smacking.
Zero tolerance? Except for deepfake porn, apparently.
The parents should sue the school for tolerating that.
Everything with a zero tolerance policy is bullshit and just an excuse to avoid having to actually consider nuance and individual situations.
I got the same punishment in highschool for climbing over a table in the lunchroom to start a fight with someone who bullied me as I did for showing up five minutes late to class. It’s all such bullshit. (The punishment was two days of in school suspension.)
If the story is true it would be overly excessive for both to be expelled. Also the boy who seems to be 13 years old as well. That’s just very young. But then again I’m from the socialist paradise Germany where we don’t think it’s appropriate to throw kids into prison or ruin their lifes otherwise :)
While I wouldn’t advocate accepting this behavior there’s got to be a better way of addressing it. Sure, the victim shouldn’t have to deal with the accused, but there’s got to be a way of teaching a kid a lesson that doesn’t ruin their entire future. That kid has their entire adult life ahead of him and it is in all of our interest for him to become a responsible, upstanding, contributing adult
Simply expelling a kid is a failure of the school system as much as it is a failure of the kid
I’m from Europe, too. Kids are expelled from school for less than this. He absolutely should be expelled and have to have mandatory counseling. A slap on the wrist will just show other kids they can get away with sexual harassment and abuse, and make it even worse for the victims.
Just for you: He is 13 (in words: thirteen).
But demanding draconian punishments is always easy of course.
At 13 I could tell right from wrong. 13 is young, but old enough to know better than this. And expelling someone for sexual harassment/abuse and giving them mandatory counseling isn’t draconian. What’s draconian is that girls and women have to deal with this type of abuse and have people like you wave it off like it’s not a big deal, because boys will be boys.
Where did I state that? That’s just a strawman. That I don’t think one should ruin a very young and potentially immature person’s life doesn’t mean I don’t think that behavior should be addressed. But please enlighten me how expelling someone makes that person a better member of the society?
Sure but the problem is being expelled from school potentially ruins their entire adult life. There should be a better way of handling that includes appropriate punishment and remediation, as well as support for the victim, and still sets the kid up to become a functioning adult member of society
There have to be more answers than either expel them or accept their behavior, and the school district needs to be tasked with finding one that both ensures justice and their role of helping kids become responsible adults
at least here they have schools (well, a school) for the kids who got expelled from gen ed. they get the same shitty education the rest of us do, no fun extracurriculars, and if they fuck up there they’re done.