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Why? Who are these people accountable to? This has real world consequences to this child, is it as simple as they're fucking bastards or what?

shadowgovt 5y ago
> Who are these people accountable to? In every place in the US I'm aware of, the school board ultimately oversees administrators, and the school board is made of elected officials. > is it as simple as they're fucking bastards or what? The most charitable explanation is that they're in way over their heads technologically and concerned that incompetence will cost them their jobs if they try to do nothing. But I'm having difficulty finding a charitable explanation that respects the harm being wrong here can do to the 6th grader.
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omginternets 5y ago
> Who are these people accountable to? I mean, this is exactly why we have civil litigation. I suppose the fly in the ointment is that it’s going to be hard to find anyone individually responsible, so it’s likely that the taxpayer would end up footing the bill.
meowface 5y ago
>Who are these people accountable to? In this situation, hopefully they'll be accountable to the civil court if/when they award damages and legal fee compensation to the victim.
curryst 5y ago
> Why? Who are these people accountable to? This has real world consequences to this child, is it as simple as they're fucking bastards or what? It's possible; personally I think they're just massively uncomfortable saying to parents "anyone on the internet has access to your children via online classes, they're using it to broadcast objectionable content to your children, and we don't have an idea of how to solve it". It's possible they're just ignorant. It's also possible that they're awful people and are using him as a scapegoat because "a classmate said horrible things" probably worries parents a lot less than "some random stranger is breaking into online classrooms and saying horrible things". It also lets them imply that suspending him will make the Zoom bombing stop.

shadowgovt 5y ago

> Who are these people accountable to? In every place in the US I'm aware of, the school board ultimately oversees administrators, and the school board is made of elected officials. > is it as simple as they're fucking bastards or what? The most charitable explanation is that they're in way over their heads technologically and concerned that incompetence will cost them their jobs if they try to do nothing. But I'm having difficulty finding a charitable explanation that respects the harm being wrong here can do to the 6th grader.

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omginternets 5y ago

> Who are these people accountable to? I mean, this is exactly why we have civil litigation. I suppose the fly in the ointment is that it’s going to be hard to find anyone individually responsible, so it’s likely that the taxpayer would end up footing the bill.

meowface 5y ago

>Who are these people accountable to? In this situation, hopefully they'll be accountable to the civil court if/when they award damages and legal fee compensation to the victim.

curryst 5y ago

> Why? Who are these people accountable to? This has real world consequences to this child, is it as simple as they're fucking bastards or what? It's possible; personally I think they're just massively uncomfortable saying to parents "anyone on the internet has access to your children via online classes, they're using it to broadcast objectionable content to your children, and we don't have an idea of how to solve it". It's possible they're just ignorant. It's also possible that they're awful people and are using him as a scapegoat because "a classmate said horrible things" probably worries parents a lot less than "some random stranger is breaking into online classrooms and saying horrible things". It also lets them imply that suspending him will make the Zoom bombing stop.