https://www.insider.com/teacher-on-leave-middle-school-boys-creep-pedo-database-girls-2022-9

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Diaries are extremely valuable in court. Collectively created or not this is a diary and will be some powerful evidence. Good kids.

    • The_Dawn [fae/faer, des/pair]
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      2 years ago

      ALWAYS KEEP A DIARY ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE ORGANIZING A UNION. The proof that you were organizing could prove invaluable in a wrongful termination suit. But really like, for real, journaling is such a useful tool outside of legal implications and I feel like it's a dying art.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Yes just only put the legal shit in it :sicko-hexbear:

        • The_Dawn [fae/faer, des/pair]
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          2 years ago

          No actually. I fucking hate this. Keep a physical diary. Keep it in a nightstand. If the cops have reason to obtain your diary and read it, you're fucked already. Just use a diary in whatever way you see useful.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Please keep detailed records of all illegal activities you perform my fellow communists! You're screwed anyway! :fedposting:

            :bugs-no:

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                2 years ago

                I have been in 2 police raids justified as "suspicion of drugs" that were ultimately just fishing expeditions for anything and everything they could find. Charges were made and later dropped for possession of The Anarchist Cookbook among other absolutely ridiculous and small things they managed to trump up out of anything they could find.

                I lived in a house where our stuff ended up searched after a housemember had a rare psychotic episode as a result of weed use combined with their undiagnosed schizophrenia.

                Several other times something could have happened if we hadn't given the police the run around and not been followed back.

                You're damn right I care about not having any record of incriminating activity. If the police care about you you're NOT fucked, they will be trying to make life difficult for you with whatever they can find, don't make it bloody easy for them.

                • The_Dawn [fae/faer, des/pair]
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                  2 years ago

                  to that end i've been arrested for organizing tenants and worker's unions when i clearly wasn't breaking the law. my friend was charged with (and ultimately had charges dropped) for wearing a dress in public. the point i'm trying to make is that if you're a target for the police, you're a target for the police, evidence and lawbreaking has nothing to do with it. And sometimes (often, really) it's tactically pertinent to discuss stuff like this with your friends. there's risk management, always, but the biggest trick COINTELPRO played was us never trusting anyone and never discussing our actions, or god forbid never acting in the first place. You can talk about things IRL, the chance of the police having an active bug on any of your devices is painfully low. But people's risk assessment nowdays is always at MAXIMUM FUCKING DANGER I AM LITERALLY FRED HAMPTON AND ABOUT TO BE ASSASSINATED. It's silly as hell. The government is not God and there are steps you can take to tell if you're being observed.

                  • Awoo [she/her]
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                    2 years ago

                    I'm not saying don't talk to people I'm saying don't keep a bloody record of illegal activities that will get you and everyone else in your record immeasurably. Whether that is thieving trolley loads of food from the local Tesco to fill up the food bank, knocking out rail line signals so they have to shut down, participation in vandalising local factories involved with Israel or any other bloody thing anarchists and communists are absolutely up to on the regular over here.

                    Making your life a bit difficult is completely different to giving them the evidence they need to put you in prison for 5 to 10.

                    • The_Dawn [fae/faer, des/pair]
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                      2 years ago

                      But you'd have no reason to record the fact that you did those things. You could record stories and facts regarding supply line delays to track the efficacy of your work, but you don't have to directly put TODAY I PARTICIPATED IN INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE. Tracking the efficacy of your actions is necessary to refining them. You can't just keep all that in your head it has to be recorded eventually.

                      • Awoo [she/her]
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                        2 years ago

                        I'm not making a scrapbook of news stories despite how funny showing the grandkids something like that sounds. Do not collect crime trophies.

        • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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          2 years ago

          Instead, for 80% of people we just get to read it while they're still alive, and then for the other 20% we never find out.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    I had a friend in high school who posted a blog about his Economics teacher. She wasn't a nounce, but she was still incredibly weird. Very obviously drunk during class. Would periodically just wander off and leave the room for long stretches of time. Incredibly temperamental towards the students. No discernible lesson plan. So we had this day-by-day log of all the crazy shit that went down in class.

    The running joke was that she had dirt on the principle, because that's the only way she could have kept her job.

    Anyway, despite this open and notorious record of her terrible teaching, she still hung on for another three or four years before finally getting let go.

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      2 years ago

      I was initially enrolled in a private school, and my first grade teacher was a terrible human being. Not a nonce, but she was really emotionally and sometimes even physically abusive towards students and notorious for this fact. When I was in her class, she actively pursued a team up with a boy who hated me to co-bully me together. This came to a head when the boy pushed me down a full flight of concrete stairs and her response was to laugh and give him a high five. She described the event as "hilarious and awesome."

      When my parents and I met with the principal about this, the principal said that they were aware and that it was not acceptable, but that there was also nothing they could do about it because the teachers family was the school's primary funding family and if they fired her, the school would go bankrupt before the end of the semester. This was a large pre-k through 12 private school, as well, so they must have been dumping in hundreds of millions of dollars in order to justify this woman's career. She is, last time I checked, still employed there and still bullying children.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        This was a large pre-k through 12 private school, as well, so they must have been dumping in hundreds of millions of dollars in order to justify this woman’s career.

        Probably closer to hundreds of thousands, and I doubt any of it was going to the faculty. This sounds like high school principle tier bullshit. Pissing off this teacher might provoke an angry Superintendent to can his ass, but it had nothing to do with the well-being of the school itself.

        • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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          2 years ago

          I don't know, we were very explicitly told that the only reason she hadn't been fired like years prior for any one of the events in the like giant ass binder of reports they had on this lady was because her family was essentially the only reason that this school was financially viable, and that without them fundraising would not be possible.

          • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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            2 years ago

            If its a private school and her family was somehow the primary sponsor, its certainly possible. But I've seen a lot of ways for public money to trickle into private schools. More often than not, a family like this is simply the gatekeeper of that cash. They aren't going out of pocket for it. They're just funneling money from somewhere else.

            I've also heard enough bullshit from school administrative staff to take any kind of private conversation with a high school principle alongside a huge grain of salt. Sometimes it feels like half the job of the principle is to just lie your ass off.