because educators aren't paid enough to figure out which covert spying devices exist

These devices are expensive.

Teenage girls - If you spot them... Grab them and smash them.

What parent would buy their middle schooler pervert glasses?

Some schools in New Zealand put the camera in the bathroom themselves.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/11/are-cctv-cameras-in-school-bathrooms-infringing-on-student-privacy/

Showing may age here 🤣 but back in 2005, I had a film camera shaped like a juice box that I thought was the coolest thing on the planet. The straw was how you took pictures, the lens was hidden in the logo.

There was no film in it because I just wanted to show it off but yeah..... School didn't give a fuck.

Then again I'm autistic and I was super into the spy stuff. I think that came with one of those spy kits and I annoyed the shit out of my family with those beeping door sensors and I genuinely concerned someone by eating the edible paper. I made one of my sisters friends scream at the top of her lungs because she had no idea who I was when I wore the sunglasses with mirrors to see behind you and a fake mustache and I was into disguises.

But there's a difference between being a kid and having fun and things inadvertently happening vs being a menace and a dickhead to those around you.

We've allowed smart phones for the last 20 years or so.

Phones, cameras, watches with cameras, GoPros are all all ready allowed, why would this be any different? Some schools even have equipment to rent to make videos, or their news program has some, yearbook group, etc.

I mean, most of your early value comes from your parents (or closest adult influence), and presumably the parents needed to buy the very expensive device.

So yeah they can be blamed.

Blaming parents is an individualistic solution to a systemic problem

A system made up of individual people....

No one EVER wants to take personal responsibility. God forbid a parent actually parent and not just hand their child's mind over to the state.

Timmy - Can I have meta glasses / mindrape myself with brainrot?

Parent - No.

Problem solved over night.

Shifting all of the onus onto the "mysterious system" is exactly what causes these issues in the first place. Its a cop out 100%. "Well I know I didnt even try but but but the system."

Change happens when individuals nut up and take things into their own hands.

The parents are shitty parents and will continue to be so as long as people keep hand-waving any and all responsibility.

A reminder to butthurt parents: the way your kid turns out is on you.

are these at a price point kids can just buy without daddy's money?

Yet “it takes a school to raise’m”‽
It is the parents job to educate children the value of privacy, and how to maintain it.
Corporations, thus capitalism, exist because the parents have allowed them to invade their privacies too. Corporations wouldn't exist if the demand for violating privacy existed: the parents are harassers too.

Millennials haven't done any better from what I've seen and heard.

Pretty sure mellenials are the majority of parents, including parents of teens, right now.

Nobody knows how to parent. How could anyone when every lesson you learn is outdated within a decade, if not sooner, and the environment is constantly being filled with new tech that rewrites social norms with little to no oversight? Don't expect this to improve with millenials, gen z or gen a. As long as the pace of change continues at the rate we have, the challenges of parenthood will be beyond most parents.

GenX aren't usually the parents of school-aged kids are they? I don't know, say 16 (kid's age) + 26 (age when parent had child) = 42, which is Millenial currently. Genx would have been on average 5-15 years older.

@EmilieEasie @Midnight

Agreed, looking at the article it is the parents or adults who are buying for the kids, or providing an allowance and the kids buy their own.

This is what happens when generations are raised without the word NO because some numpty has decreed saying no harms children. There was a time when NO meant NO.

1. Corporation makes evil thing.
2. Evil people use evil thing.

There’s enough blame to go around, don’t worry.

So did smart phones a social media and they suffered zero consequences. We're just lab rats they experiment on with whatever tech decide to make next.

Interesting that you🫵 even need a daughter to “raise hell” with these harassers already harming others’ daughters.

But do agree in one thing, Meta isn't the schools’ children's parents.

And sometimes the people who should be the right people turn out to be stupid people or too burned out to care any more. And then you need to turn to voting, and gather enough people and keep their attention focused to try to outweigh the millions of dollars in donations coming in from the Pro-Pervert Glasses PACs.

And then... ever seen Falling Down? I'm pretty sure that's the next step.

Oh cool! The Khmer rouge did that.

Nah republicans love anything that allows the exploitation of women or other marginalized groups

Or with biggering cars. "Just buy the bigger, more expensive one!"

Sorry, I'm OOTL: why are they called pervert glasses?

How did you make the text so big. Tell me right now.

A lot of people. Schools around me go from the beginning of August until mid May

Here in Colorado school started a week ago.

Today is the first day for our school district. It's weird to start on a Thursday, but at least the kids get a quick first weekend.

I took note of this story because now is exactly the time of year I would expect to see these stories. There have been months of summer vacation in which some number of these perv glasses will make their way into the hands of minors. So we get a spike early in the school year.

That is correct; however, what others may have in mind when looking at these glasses is their whole point of existence. A phone was developed for a much grander thing. While these glasses.. Well.. have developed quite explicitly for this.

Sounds more like a genuine problem of misogyny with the invasion of privacy and harassment of teenage girls.