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[cheerKT]

I'm going to date myself a tad, but this reminds me of the whole Juicy Campus site circa my college years-ish. Crazy. People anonymously posted whatever they wanted about particular people at school. It caused a lot of drama and some schools even expelled kids based on what was posted about them. Ex: Anonymous Annie posts an entire list of drugs that Suzie Student does and the classes she cheated in. Boom. Suzie is expelled from Duke/Yale/whatever.

Oh, they are still around. My freshman year it was collegeacb, then once that got taken down someone created another platform people went to. It's a never ending cycle. My school never took action with any of them, since most were just stupid "greek rankings" or such and such is "soooo hott".

 

[Dixie]

Dating myself before the internet, but this was around in the 80's. They were called 'slam books', but content was limited to your high school. It was stupid then and is stupid now.


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[cheerisloving]

If your high school has a twitter secrets account (these started a while back and my guess is that's where this all came from) it's the same idea. I lost a teacher this year due to student "bullying" through a twitter secrets account where someone "anonymous" who runs the account just starts tweeting any and all "dirty laundry" about anyone and everyone whether it's true or not. W

Not just my high school, there was a twitter that was 'exposing' the WHOLE county . We have three public HS and one school for gifted students all within 15 minutes from each other, so you better believe that everyone knows everyone and that these twitters get pretty nasty. They usually last for about a day and get shut down pretty quickly. I don't know of anyone getting in trouble but it's not fun. My school had two this year, one which was pretty tame and obvious that it was giving fake information, and targeted the 'popular' students, the school had a good laugh from that one but it still got shut down. A week later a new one was up but it was exposing people, mostly people who had attended a party the weekend before. I was 'exposed' and had to deal with it for the rest of the school year. I hate these things because it can torch reputations and it's not right to 'expose' someone because you don't like that they 'pretend' to be something they're not. We are all human, we all have moments of weakness.

 

[krystynakrez]

Oh, they are still around. My freshman year it was collegeacb, then once that got taken down someone created another platform people went to. It's a never ending cycle. My school never took action with any of them, since most were just stupid "greek rankings" or such and such is "soooo hott".

LOL greekrank is hilarious
I still love yikyak because it provides hours of entertainment but then again it's on a college campus and everyone is legally an adult
In this case, it's just another outlet for immature cheerleaders to get attention.
I would bet that most of the nude pictures are probably posted by the athletes themselves. People go too far seeking attention these days and it's really just disgusting.

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

^^^^Right. Like when a celebrity gets upset about "leaked" photos when in reality, they are the leaker. Hilarious.

 

[sarahh_cheers]

there is a confessions page on twitter for the whole state of Pennsylvania that basically everyone i know follows. its mostly harmless because everything is anonymous, you only know what school the person is from. but a few times something that happened to my friend was posted and everyone knew who it was about.

 

[yooolizzi]

My thought on nudes being posted:
DON'T TAKE NUDES IN THE FIRST PLACE.
You wouldn't have to deal with people seeing your doo-lollies and hoo-hahs if the picture wasn't taken and sent in the first place. You are responsible for the pictures YOU TAKE. If you pose in the mirror for that picture and you aren't wearing clothes, you have to be okay with someone seeing you that way. You can't trust anyone with something as personal as that. They are called your private parts for a reason, keep them private and off your camera roll.

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

My thought on nudes being posted:
DON'T TAKE NUDES IN THE FIRST PLACE.
You wouldn't have to deal with people seeing your doo-lollies and hoo-hahs if the picture wasn't taken and sent in the first place. You are responsible for the pictures YOU TAKE. If you pose in the mirror for that picture and you aren't wearing clothes, you have to be okay with someone seeing you that way. You can't trust anyone with something as personal as that. They are called your private parts for a reason, keep them private and off your camera roll.

Yes. I am a HS counselor and I have had this conversation more than I'd like to.

The scenario plays out like this:

Bobby dates Suzie.
They are "in love like forever ever xoxo."
Suzie sends suggestive photos to Bobby for 2 month anniversary.
Suzie and Bobby break up 2 weeks after that.
Bobby texts said pics to entire baseball team after argument.
Suzie comes to my office crying about it.
Bobby is reprimanded (as much as we can per school policy, but usually he is suspended in some way for cyber bullying.)
Suzie is still devastated because while we can punish Bobby, the PICS ARE FOREVER. I cannot un-send them. Or make them go away. Even when you're my age with a family, they'll still be there.

 

[12stepCheermom]

Yes. I am a HS counselor and I have had this conversation more than I'd like to.

The scenario plays out like this:

Bobby dates Suzie.
They are "in love like forever ever xoxo."
Suzie sends suggestive photos to Bobby for 2 month anniversary.
Suzie and Bobby break up 2 weeks after that.
Bobby texts said pics to entire baseball team after argument.
Suzie comes to my office crying about it.
Bobby is reprimanded (as much as we can per school policy, but usually he is suspended in some way for cyber bullying.)
Suzie is still devastated because while we can punish Bobby, the PICS ARE FOREVER. I cannot un-send them. Or make them go away. Even when you're my age with a family, they'll still be there.

This EXACT scenario happened (right team and everything) this past spring. But there was not much school discipline. It wasn't sent during school hours or from school equipment. It didn't involve the school much at all other than the fact they went there and it didn't cause a school disruption so our hands were tied.


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[UCFKnights07]

Reminds me of TheDirty.com.... I'm constantly reminded as to why I'm so thankful I grew up in the 90s before the internet took over.

 

[oncecoolcoachnowmom]

This EXACT scenario happened (right team and everything) this past spring. But there was not much school discipline. It wasn't sent during school hours or from school equipment. It didn't involve the school much at all other than the fact they went there and it didn't cause a school disruption so our hands were tied.


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Exactly.

He got ISS (in-school suspension) for 1 day for cyber bullying or some such. But the school's hands were tied. Even THAT was a stretch.

Moms will come in like "I DEMAND THAT BOBBY BE SUSPENDED AND JAILED FOR DISSEMINATING THESE PHOTOS!"

I feel legitimately terrible but there is little to nothing we can do in that regard.

That's why I try to impress on girls that you need to NOT because once it's there, it's there. And there is NOTHING we can do.

(*praises God that such things didn't exist when she was in HS. Worst thing was a mean AIM from someone or mean away message about you*)

 

[12stepCheermom]

Exactly.

He got ISS (in-school suspension) for 1 day for cyber bullying or some such. But the school's hands were tied. Even THAT was a stretch.

Moms will come in like "I DEMAND THAT BOBBY BE SUSPENDED AND JAILED FOR DISSEMINATING THESE PHOTOS!"

I feel legitimately terrible but there is little to nothing we can do in that regard.

That's why I try to impress on girls that you need to NOT because once it's there, it's there. And there is NOTHING we can do.

(*praises God that such things didn't exist when she was in HS. Worst thing was a mean AIM from someone or mean away message about you*)

Exactly.

It always astonishes me how much parents try to put the school in the middle if things that aren't "school" issues. This is one (and the school can't punish a kid if what they did had nothing to do with school nor impacted it in any way) and custody cases....

Lawd!

My job is to educate your child, not referee who they're going home with this weekend, call you personally if mom/dad contacts them at the school etc. Take care of your own family drama with your family lawyer...who is NOT me, by the way.



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[Cheermom1969]

Reminds me of TheDirty.com.... I'm constantly reminded as to why I'm so thankful I grew up in the 90s before the internet took over.

or in my case the '80s. ;)

 

[Cheermom1969]

Exactly.

It always astonishes me how much parents try to put the school in the middle if things that aren't "school" issues. This is one (and the school can't punish a kid if what they did had nothing to do with school nor impacted it in any way) and custody cases....

Lawd!

My job is to educate your child, not referee who they're going home with this weekend, call you personally if mom/dad contacts them at the school etc. Take care of your own family drama with your family lawyer...who is NOT me, by the way.



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I've had TWO boys try to get my daughter to send them naked pics of her! In on case, since the kid lived down the street, I let his father know what happened and that he should look at jr's phone. The other, since I had no idea who the parents were, I texted him from my daughter's phone and said if he EVER texted her again or contacted her in any way, not only would I unleash my police officer husband and her football playing brother on him, but that I would hunt down his parents and show them what he had done. And also, if he said ONE negative word about her in school, I would be going to the school authorities and his parents would find out that way.
As luck would have it, his mother ended up finding out anyway because we live in a somewhat small town! Ha!

I never once thought of taking either case to the school since this was done on the kids' private phones and nothing had been done during school. Maybe I'm in the minority but I would rather deal with parents or kid directly than through the school, unless that's my only recourse.

 

[12stepCheermom]

@Cheermom1969 your way is WAY more effective, trust me!


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