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Does this scare you?

by frustrated

Jan 6, 2010

I am in my fifth year of teaching, the middle of the second year at the middle school I was working at. When I got to school one day, my principal (not a very friendly person to say the least) informed me that my computer had been confiscated and brought to the district technology department because someone had reported that I was looking at adult sites at school. She told me to go home and they'd call me. I went home and was called in the next day by personnel and told that there were several adult sites visited on my classroom computer. When they showed me the computer printout, the sites were visited non-stop for two days, practically all day long. When given the dates they said I looked at the sites, I explained that I was reviewing for a test one of the days (therefore could not have been on the computer all day) and the other day was showing an LPB clip through the very computer that had the sites on it. I also asked if they had checked the computer for viruses or maleware to mak...See MoreI am in my fifth year of teaching, the middle of the second year at the middle school I was working at. When I got to school one day, my principal (not a very friendly person to say the least) informed me that my computer had been confiscated and brought to the district technology department because someone had reported that I was looking at adult sites at school. She told me to go home and they'd call me. I went home and was called in the next day by personnel and told that there were several adult sites visited on my classroom computer. When they showed me the computer printout, the sites were visited non-stop for two days, practically all day long. When given the dates they said I looked at the sites, I explained that I was reviewing for a test one of the days (therefore could not have been on the computer all day) and the other day was showing an LPB clip through the very computer that had the sites on it. I also asked if they had checked the computer for viruses or maleware to make sure that there wasn't anything that had just given the appearance of these sites and they told me that the computer had been checked. Personnel said they would interview some students and call me back the next day. The next day when I returned, I was informed that they had decided not to interview students and I had two choices: (1) get terminated and file an appeal to go before the school board, or (2) resign immediately and receive a favorable recommendation to work in another parish. I panicked and resigned, afraid of how it would look if I had to have a school board hearing - especially since I am a male teacher, I feel like I would have been assumed guilty and had no way of proving my innocence except to talk to my students. I know now that I made the mistake of not calling my union rep, but I felt since I was innocent I could handle it myself...Now I'm looking for employment in neighboring cities. What do you all think of this? Isn't it frightening in this day and age that you can be held solely responsible for anything that appears on your classroom's computer, even in a middle school where there are plenty of children with the knowledge of "hacking" practices...

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