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Nowhereman said:
But once again you totally ignore a good portion of the post.
I said that the parents are wholly responsible for their children, so on that basis if the kids do wrong, then it is the parents responsibilty for not monitoring their children properly, ie installing a net-nanny style program.



I had addressed that point. I noted that I believed a "net nanny" program would not necessarily have prevented these particular pictures from being discovered.

Furthermore, you are imposing an unrealistic standard on parents. Short of completely isolating a child and/or monitoring that child one on one 24/7 it is impossible to completely prevent all possible exposure of a child to things which a parent may not approve.

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And saying that we dont hold children to the same standards of behaviour is a pretty piss poor argument.
Are you saying that if children do something wrong, they should not be punished [etc]



Actually, we don't hold children to the same standards of behavior as an adult. We never have.

Children are allowed, depending on their ages, to scream in public, throw food, soil their diapers, walk around naked, "play doctor," get in fist fights and generally engage in behavior which would get an adult arrested, incarcerated and/or committed to a mental hospital. Even when a child is old enough to be charged with a crime, often we try that child as a "juvenile" and impose a different form of "punishment" than we would as an adult.

Likewise, we impose certain laws on adults that regulate their interactions with children and prevent them from engaging in certain behaviors towards children that are legal if engaged in with consenting adults (see, eg, statutory rape or sexual abuse).

Why? Because we understand that children do not have the same capacity for reasoning right and wrong that adults do.


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But none of this really matters as in this case the only people in the wrong are the moral majority, but you seem to wanna take this off in a completely different direction.



Every one here is in agreement that the teacher shouldn't be fired. Every one here is in agreement that what the teacher did in her private life had no bearing on her job performance. That was the issue when the tread started and that's the issue for most of us today.

The only person who keeps trying to take it in a different direction is the guy who keeps bringing up some tangent about the kids being in the wrong also.