Ok, here's the story. The school rule is that no cell phones are to be used during school hours, and people caught with phones will have their phones taken and given back to them at the end of the day. While the rule sucks, that's understandable. Today near the end of the day, I got caught texting someone and had my phone taken away. Now here's where my problem comes in:
Someone decided to call my phone and send me something. My phone was on vibrate, and my teacher saw this. He decided to pick up my phone, open it, see the "new pix msg" notification, hit ok, and look at the picture. The picture happened to be an "obscene" one. He said he could not return my phone, and it was sent down to the assistant principal who called me in. He showed me the picture, asked me who did it, and I said I didn't know. Luckily I didn't have the person's number saved. I ended up getting off of it without any problems and the picture was deleted.
My main problem is the fact that my teacher opened my phone. It's my understanding that our privacy is protected by the Bill of Rights, and he had no right to invade my privacy like that. Am I missing something here, and did he really have the right to do that? I asked him if he did, but he came back with a response of "do you have the right to have your phone out in school?" which made no sense. I'm just curious to see if what he did was justified or not.
Someone decided to call my phone and send me something. My phone was on vibrate, and my teacher saw this. He decided to pick up my phone, open it, see the "new pix msg" notification, hit ok, and look at the picture. The picture happened to be an "obscene" one. He said he could not return my phone, and it was sent down to the assistant principal who called me in. He showed me the picture, asked me who did it, and I said I didn't know. Luckily I didn't have the person's number saved. I ended up getting off of it without any problems and the picture was deleted.
My main problem is the fact that my teacher opened my phone. It's my understanding that our privacy is protected by the Bill of Rights, and he had no right to invade my privacy like that. Am I missing something here, and did he really have the right to do that? I asked him if he did, but he came back with a response of "do you have the right to have your phone out in school?" which made no sense. I'm just curious to see if what he did was justified or not.
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