However, this was not the attitude of one school in Florida, after a student was suspended for recording audio of a teacher taunting one of her young peers.
Brianna Cooper, a fifth-grade student at Fort Pierce Elementary School, reportedly recorded her teacher telling a fellow classmate: “Don’t let the size fool you. I will drop you.”
The teacher in question was fired after Brianna handed the recording over to school authorities, however Brianna also received a suspension because, according to Florida law, her recording was “illegal”.
Indeed, as the recording was made without the teacher’s knowledge – thus violating their expectation of privacy – Brianna broke the law.
Brianna and her family have hit back at the school’s reasoning, claiming that the teacher could not have held such an expectation of privacy in a classroom full of students.
Now, Brianna’s mum is calling for the school to withdraw her suspension and have it struck from her permanent record.
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