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12-01-2005, 09:29 PM
Mack Bedor, an eighth grader at Jasper County Middle School should be with his friends at school, but instead he's making up class work at home.
“He’s got a five-day unwanted vacation. It’ll be on his permanent record that he stole school property. My opinion is that he did the right thing,” said Mack’s mother, Cindy Champion.
Mac is being punished for taking a camera out of the celing of the boys bathroom that is shared by Jasper County Middle and High School students. The high school principal admits to putting the camera there.
“There was tiles up there and it was cut out in a little circle,” Mac said. “It felt like it was the right thing to do because we were being violated in the bathroom, and I just knew I could trust my mom and she would do something about it.”
“That was the interesting part to me that surprised me -- Ms. Massengil, the middle school principal, nor the teachers were aware. No one seemed to be aware besides the principal at the high school,” Champion said. “I had told the high school principal, Mr. Fore, that he needed to come up with another solution -- that this wasn't appropriate. His response to me was he was going to continue to film.”
The Bibb County district attorney says cameras in public bathrooms are legal because schools have more leeway on privacy issues.
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=72635
“He’s got a five-day unwanted vacation. It’ll be on his permanent record that he stole school property. My opinion is that he did the right thing,” said Mack’s mother, Cindy Champion.
Mac is being punished for taking a camera out of the celing of the boys bathroom that is shared by Jasper County Middle and High School students. The high school principal admits to putting the camera there.
“There was tiles up there and it was cut out in a little circle,” Mac said. “It felt like it was the right thing to do because we were being violated in the bathroom, and I just knew I could trust my mom and she would do something about it.”
“That was the interesting part to me that surprised me -- Ms. Massengil, the middle school principal, nor the teachers were aware. No one seemed to be aware besides the principal at the high school,” Champion said. “I had told the high school principal, Mr. Fore, that he needed to come up with another solution -- that this wasn't appropriate. His response to me was he was going to continue to film.”
The Bibb County district attorney says cameras in public bathrooms are legal because schools have more leeway on privacy issues.
http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=72635