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Parents Sue School in Nude Cheerleader Photo Scandal
What is it about the combination of high school cheerleaders and digital cameras that always leads to something stupid?
Despite several high profile cases of girls getting booted from cheerleading squads and expelled from school over revealing photos, teenagers keep snapping pics with their cell phones and digi-cams and landing themselves in hot water.
A pair of teens at Bothell High School in Seattle are just the latest to fall victim to their own poor judgment. What makes this case unique is that after the girls' photos made the rounds with the football team and the girls were punished by being suspended from the cheer leading squad, their parents came to their defense. Sort of.
The girls' mothers filed suit against the school. Their challenge asserts not that the school's administrators were wrong to suspend the girls, but that they did not appropriately punish all those involved and that their right to due process was violated.
As part of the suit, the parents are looking for an apology from officials for not reporting the images immediately as child pornography or properly disciplining the other students involved. The parents also contend that the school officials unnecessarily shared the images with other staff members. It also charges that students, particularly those on the football team, found to be possession of the photos and sharing them with others should be punished appropriately according to child pornography laws.
The school only went as far as asking student who received the photos to delete them, which we're sure was plenty effective.
Our take? The girls are dumb for taking the photos, students were mean to share them, the school was wrong not to punish those who distributed them, and the parents are stupid for thinking that a lawsuit isn't just a waste of taxpayer money.
So please, teenage girls of the world, here is a little advice from Switched -- keep your clothes on in front of a camera. [From: Seattlepi.com via parentdish]
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Subscribe to commentsJimDec 10th 2008 1:47PM
Since there was no comment on that cheerleader posting, this is my comment: The web site URL posted prior is a known virus web site. Anyone who visits that site and wishes to view "nude photos" of stars receive a virus. If that is what you wish and want your PC destroyed, go ahead, be my guest, make my day. As a computer company owner, I have shop full of PCs from such morons who download this crap. Perhaps, you are the infector, ot just have money to burn.
ZmanDec 9th 2008 8:44PM
Where the heck is the first amendmeent?
ShannonDec 9th 2008 9:15PM
The first amendment takes a second seat to child pornography. Even though the girls were stupid for taking the pictures, you can't pass around naked pictures of minors! Legally they are not old enough to consent to the photos or to the disbursement of such.
JasonDec 9th 2008 11:11PM
The first amendment doesn't have a thing to do with porn! It's about sharing ideas. Anybody that takes pictures like that and put them on the compter doesn't have an idea in their head!
rbDec 9th 2008 9:16PM
Of course the girls parents sued the schools. Don't people always want to blame others for their own conduct. When will people start to accept responsibility for their own actions? These girls will probably go through life with mommy coming to their rescue.
TVGeniusDec 9th 2008 10:48PM
They don't mention here the fact that one of the girls' pictures were taken and in circulation before she was a student at that school, yet she was punished under it's code of conduct after the pictures were circulated again later.
ForzinDec 10th 2008 12:48AM
Man, you should really learn to read; the parents are suing the School because they feel that the punishment wasn't strict enough. Sure, the Parents can punish their kids (Lord knows I would), but they can hardly do anything to the others. Maybe their parents would... hopefully.
johnDec 9th 2008 9:15PM
For one thing they took the pictures STUPID. Were do we draw the line. You give them phones ,cars, credit cards, and all the sports they like to play. Are they adults ????? They have a car,Do they know how to drive?????????? They all have phones DO they know how to use it????????? Are they adults????????? We give them all these things BECAUSE we are to busy .And we are the adults! Adults what makes us adults??????? The girls got there punishment ! The photo got around school . Good or bad they have to live with !
CaitlinDec 9th 2008 11:33PM
This article was almost comical to me. This same situation happened at my old highschool a few weeks ago. As a friend of the cheerleading coach, I asked the coach what she wanted to do in terms of punishment for this girl. She persoanlly wanted to take the girl off of her squad because it's a terrible way to represent both the cheerleading squad and the entire school. Despite her feelings, the administration took very little action in the matter and merely suspended her from the squad until january, mostly to avoid legal action. Luckily it hasn't come to a lawsuit... yet. But I doubt that her parents will take action, I think they're pretty embarrassed.
LoriDec 9th 2008 9:17PM
the 1st amendment doesn't protect child pornography laws. the thing with schools is that you can be stolen from, harrassed, beaten up and the laws don't apply to the students. They keep them within the halls and that is why schools are getting worse and worse and students are becoming more and more out of control. you will see more pregnant teens in school nowadays because the schools promote or rather the 1st amendment protects them from being shipped out of the school. The parents are well within their rights if their children's naked pictures are circulating without the school and the school knew about it. Why just the girls get suspended why not the "johns" who received, kept and passed around the pictures? This country is so full of creepiness it's disgusting. These girls should be ashamed, but the parents should lay the smackdown to teach the school a lesson too.
CivRightsLawyrDec 9th 2008 9:55PM
Did someone actually ask, "Where the heck is the 1st Amendment?" That is the dumbest thing I've heard in a while. Think about it . . . the first amendment does NOT protect CHILD PORN! Also, it only prohibits the Government from preventing speech, it does not absolve anyone from invasion of privacy, slander, defamation, or disseminating CHILD PORN.
So, I suggest you actually read a BOOK before believing everything on the internet. The web is cool, but its no replacement for an actual education.
JohnDec 9th 2008 9:29PM
I get the feeling that these girls had been seen naked by the football team before anyway. No big deal.
candaceDec 9th 2008 10:30PM
you're probably right . lol
which in itself is very sad.
SriliahDec 9th 2008 9:37PM
I am so sick of this country. The people that have morals and beliefs are stuck at the bottom while the more you cheat steal and have sex the farther you get. Those girls will end up in college and have a career while the strait A "ugly" girl will end up working at BK because she'll have been tormented in high school and couln't face four more years of school. The school system has to much authority in our childrens lives and practically raise our kids the way "the system" wants them to be raised and look what it has done. If I could afford it I would home school my children and say screw the school system!!!!
CarolynDec 10th 2008 1:31AM
This is pretty much true. I had a 4.0 gpa all through school and people, outside of my high school, considered me to be a pretty girl. But because I was a girl and smart, plus my "far-left" political beliefs were in contrast with the racist hypocrites and I actually try to live out my faith, I was tormented, bullied and if not worse, ignored. I'm actually a sophomore in college, but basically since I was high school I've suffered from severe depression and I've contemplated suicide many times. I just wanted to reply to your comment because you are more or less able to see the sad truth of this country and the type of society that is considered to be "good".
vickieDec 12th 2008 3:23PM
If you dont like this country then why are you here.
By the looks of your name it doesnt look like your from this country anyhow.
Go back to your third world country and stop bitching about ours!!!!
JoshDec 16th 2008 4:47PM
Don't give up on homeschooling, we did it on a very limited budget, as long as the will is there, a way can be made. Find someone who's homeschooled for a while, and get them to help you figure out how to get started.
jamesDec 25th 2008 4:08PM
"I am so sick of this country"
I'll help you pack. Good luck in your new country - don't forget to take all your friends who feel the same as you. Bye...
kevinDec 9th 2008 9:38PM
the term "child pornography" carries with it connotations of adults taking the pics/vids of the underaged in sexual situations, which is illegal. but what if the perpetrators are minors? the minor girls took pictures of themselves and chose to pass the pics around to other minors (if they were minors........you can be 18 and still in high school). are any laws being broken? if two minors consent to sex with each other, are they both guilty of sexual assault on a minor?
ChelseaDec 9th 2008 10:38PM
Actually yes. It is illegal for anyone to have sex with a minor, even if it's another minor. So in this case, even though the pictures of the minors were in posession of minors, they are still guilty. Interesting, huh?