oncecoolcoachnowmom
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I'm confused by this. I completely agree that parents should handle their own family's nonsense. IF they know about it and know the other kid.
But in this example, I sincerely doubt Suzie told her parents that she sent Bobby those pictures! And oncecoolcoachnowmom is not the principal, she's a COUNSELOR. So it is actually her job to get involved, isn't it?
Question: if "Bobby" was a 35 year old man and not an athlete from your school, you'd call the police, wouldn't you? And want them to throw every charge they had his way (including distributing child pornography). Why wouldn't you do the same here? It's against the law to distribute those pictures (unless susie is 18?), regardless of whether the sender is a creepy old man or a teenage boy.
If susie were my child, and she went to her counselor about something like this, I would hope they would help her.
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It's hard to explain as your hands are very tied with this and the law is not always clear when it comes to minors and photos on personal phones.
I can help with the counseling piece, we can talk about it, and I can have the principal look into it as far as legal ramifications, but it is on him to make the disciplinary call, and forward to the police if necessary (I want to say that he did in this case, but that Suzie did not want to deal with it because that would have involved telling her parents.)
The main point of the post is that Suzie will generally cry to me regarding wanting the photos to go away, and sadly, they don't.
I try hard to tell kids if you wouldn't want it on the giant billboard off of I-77, don't send it.