My older daughter had one teacher who used a personal email. I think she was too technically inept to solve the problems she was having with her district issued email.
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perhaps teachers giving students email details ought to use a school provided email account, not a private one ?
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I think that even thinking about that hypothetical scenario is illegal. And so is commenting on it.
Itās just moral panics all the way down.
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I agree and while I can see why taking nude selfies is potentially a bad idea, especially in the hands of immature young people, thereās a big part of me that actually fails to see this as an inherently unsound decision, and I totally see this as a case of criminalizing a sort of inevitable behavior among teens. Weāre simply differentiating between the teens who do and do not get caught.
Iām not pro-child pornography, but at the same time, Iām not anti-nude selfie or anti-teen-sex. These behaviors are not inherently problematic. I think that on some level this is why thereās so much difficulty in getting them not to do it, because much like drugs, it feels good and teens detect that the adults around them are full of shit about it. I would certainly counsel teens that our society is too fucked up and immature to handle it, but to my mind, that is the main real problem here. We barely accept the fact that adults have sex, which is part of why things like revenge porn can be so destructive beyond the violation of privacy. We as adults have screwed this up, they have done nothing wrong.
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Hey, donāt bitch at cops, bitch at your legislators. They made the law and only they can unmake it. I know the current zeitgeist is very āJudge Dreddā on cops, but its not actually the case.
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leverageā¦
I was more worried about the terrible crimes forced onto them by these adolescent thugs.
These preteen hooligans are turning our sweet, innocent spies into criminals! 
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Whatever ruins the most lives and makes the most money for people who are already wealthy. Those are the only important factors.
Except that the laws as written worked reasonably well for a long time, and itās only now a problem because cops and prosecutors have chosen to use their discretion to start prosecuting kids for violating themselves.
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It now makes sense to prosecute a teen who masturbates for sexual assault of a minor.
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hmmm. {google noises]
The annual salary of the President Judge of the Superior Court is $197,844. The annual salary of a magisterial district judge is $88,290.
The police chief makes more than most judges, but not all of them.
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nothing says teachable moment to a young person quite like handcuffs. /s
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The amount is irrelevant. My point was that it is not what he is being paid for.
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It reminds me of Penn Jilletteās rant about weed - who actually thinks that prosecuting people who take nude selfies will improve victimsā lives?
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Wow! you routinely check your 15yr oldās pictures on her phone? And that is how you are teaching her personal responsibility?
If your daughter showed you her photos, I get that, but routinely checking and de facto censuring her images. How exactly, in that context do you expect her to learn personal responsibility? Just utterly puzzled that this is considered normal in the US.
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Iāve known more than one parent in the US who proudly boast of doing that sort of snooping. Well, I guess itās not snooping since they openly do it, their kids know theyāre not permitted to have secrets.
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Iām out of <3ās, and this should get all of 'em. 
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I got that, but he might feel moreā¦ important maybe? potent? because of the ridiculous salary.
None of these are real issues.
None of the laws in question were created to handle the imaginary societal problem of children photographing themselves or voluntarily sharing those photographs with other children.
They were created to intervene against a very real (and totally different) societal problem of some adults exploiting children for personal pleasure and/or profit.
Further, this exploitation is objectionable precisely because there is a victim child involved. Exploitation of this fashion can lead to severe developmental trauma with a variety of symptoms in later life. Put simply, it can prevent a child from growing into a functioning member of society. Thus, the exploitiers are perpetrating a horrific crime on their victims and an obvious and compelling state interest exists to prevent it.
By contrast, none of these elements is present in cases where children voluntarily take photos of themselves. The horrific crime described above is entirely absent. Consequently, there is no compelling state interest supporting prior restraint against the rights of these children to photograph themselves and share the photographs. The state also cannot justify interfering with the established parenting relationship under these circumstances.
I hope at least one parent in a case like this has the resources and inclination to appeal against the gross mis-application of these laws.
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Actually, thatās not how it works (at least it sure didnāt with my friends and I when we were teenagers).
They still have secrets, it just means that theyāre highly motivated to hide those secrets from their parents.
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