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Here's how one teen plans to fix schools failing kids affected by nudify apps.
At the time, adults did not seem to take the harassment seriously, telling her to move on after she demanded more severe consequences than just a single boy's one or two-day suspension.
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At Mani's school, for example, leadership was criticized for announcing the victims' names over the loudspeaker, which Encode Justice said never should have happened. Another misstep was at a California middle school, which delayed action for four months until parents went to police, Encode Justice said. In Texas, a school failed to stop images from spreading for eight months while a victim pleaded for help from administrators and police who failed to intervene. The longer the delays, the more victims will likely be targeted. In Pennsylvania, a single ninth grader targeted 46 girls before anyone stepped in.
Students deserve better, Mani feels, and Encode Justice's plan recommends that all schools create action plans to stop failing students and respond promptly to stop image sharing.
That starts with updating policies to ban deepfake sexual imagery, then clearly communicating to students "the seriousness of the issue and the severity of the consequences." Consequences should include identifying all perpetrators and issuing suspensions or expulsions on top of any legal consequences students face, Encode Justice suggested. They also recommend establishing "written procedures to discreetly inform relevant authorities about incidents and to support victims at the start of an investigation on deepfake sexual abuse." And, critically, all teachers must be trained on these new policies.
I do not want anything girls harassed, and it’s insane schools would announce any names involved over the PA.
But unless the fake nudes were made or sent while at school or with school equipment, what is the school supposed to do about it? Even if it’s happening while at school, this is still criminal activity, so the school isn’t the only entity who can alert the authorities. It’s not like schools can arrest anyone.
Harassment is already a crime. Go to the cops if you want someone arrested for that. Not your teacher or principal. If the laws need updating, go to lawmakers.
Schools can’t solve every problem kids face. I understand the criticism of things the school did to make it worse, but there’s a strange amount of emphasis in this article on making schools stop a problem that is outside their power.