A teacher in the US has been forced into resignation after a student stole her phone and sent out her naked selfies.
Leigh Anne Arthur had been patrolling the halls when the student swiped the phone off her desk and quickly began sending out the images via text messages and social media.
Arthur told WSPA that when she returned to find the student holding the phone, he turned to her and said, “your day of reckoning is coming.”
Arthur’s resignation comes 13 years into her service as a local teacher.
US news source The State spoke to the superintendent in charge of her school’s district who said that Arthur was in the wrong for leaving her phone unlocked with the photos on there.
“I think we have a right to privacy, but when we take inappropriate information or pictures, we had best make sure it remains private,” he said.
Arthur has not returned to the school nor been in contact with the offending student. However, she has one final lesson for him to learn.
Watch Leigh Anne discuss the issue here. Post continues below…
“I forgive you. It don’t make it anymore right. But what’s done is done and I hope you learned your lesson. And I hope that you learned from this mistake and I hope that you have a wife one day that you treat like gold and you won’t want this to ever happen to her,” she said.
Parents and students have begun signing a petition to reinstate Arthur at the school.
Arthur plans on taking the student to court and will be pressing charges next week.
Top Comments
Not okay to be irresponsible with your phone. I keep mine in my bag in the staff room. There is simply no need to take it with you to class. I have no idea why a teacher would need a phone in the classroom - she should have kept it secure with a passcode. (oh yeah...the old emergency phone call...if it's that important someone will phone the school office).
She probably got fired because if you read employment contracts, some say that anything that brings a school into disrepute can result in termination. Yes, student should not have taken it but I refer to my first paragraph.
You know there are many articles about teachers resigning or getting sacked due to something that is perceived to be sexual eg porn, naked photos or milder photos such as bikini shots on the net etc.
Snr it seems to me there is a bigger debate here. We are expecting teachers to be non sexual beings.
And this is what we need to address as a society, should teachers take a vow of celibacy, or are they allowed to have a sex life outside of school hours?
Most people would say they can have a sex life as long as it's in their private life, but the problem is there is no divide between public and private anymore. So having sex with your husband in a hotel could end up on a website if there is a fake camera there. On the other hand you might also be into that kind of thing and give permission. But regardless of the permission or not the activity remains the same. And I'm pretty sure if the school downloads a video of you in the hotel room on all fours screaming out "faster big boy!" Then you would probably still end up getting fired! Regardless of whether you gave permission for the video.
It's all so hypocritical because on one hand we expect teachers to be the bastions of purity but then we raise motherhood to a pedestal, and all I can say is that having children and taking them to school is the ultimate way of flaunting your sexuality. "I'm Mrs Smith and these are my two boys I'm registering so yeah just showing you the products of my two sexual adventure." "Well I'm Mrs Jones and I have three girls, so move over Mrs Smith I can better you cause I've had a bonk at least three times!"
If you moral crusaders want pure teachers then stop flaunting your children - the products of your own sexual romps in our face!
That is the most insane thing I've read in a long time. The issue at hand is child protection. A teacher's accessible phone full of naked photos, seen by a student is a child protection issue. That is the *law*. You can all carry on ad-nauseum about the student's theft but the reality is she should have known better.