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My opinion on this situation is very mixed. I feel this is very wrong of the student because the teacher’s reputation is now wrecked. By doing a little joke on the web it can affect someone very much. If I was put in the teacher’s shoes I would be greatly hurt.

I also feel that doing what the school did was a huge invasion of privacy. The boy went onto Facebook assuming that he was able to post a joke about his teacher and would not be affected by it at all. If the boy had known that the administration team would be searching Facebook, he most probably would have avoided doing this to his teacher.

Another opinion I have on this situation is the punishment was not fair and a bit extreme. The father stated on the clip we head that he is very cautious of what his son does on the internet. His father also said that his son should not be punished because his action was done at home and not at school. In other words he should not be punished for what he has done outside of school. I agree with this because a boy lost the chance to go on an amazing trip just because of something he had done irresponsibly at home.

A possible solution to this problem is to make sure students set their settings to private. This could avoid public humiliation to the staff at the school. This is an easy task and if the students are not responsible enough to do so, is there fault. Although, in this boy’s case he was not sure how to so set his settings to private so under these circumstances it can be understood.

All in all I truly feel that this student’s action was not right but the punishment was not fair to the student. This will now teach all his classmates to be careful with what they say and do on Facebook and the internet itself.

-Aviva