“Digital citizenship is the new frontier of how we interact with people using digital media responsibly.” “This is a horrible thing, and people shouldn’t be doing it,” he said. School and Acalanes district officials have started trying to have the kinds of conversations Sofia was hoping for, in part through “digital citizenship” training.Īcalanes district Superintendent John Nickerson said he wants students to understand what is appropriate and what is not so they don’t knowingly or unknowingly commit crimes. Her story urged those who created the site to take it down but also suggested that law enforcement should intervene to remedy the problem.Īdults may have not known about the site, she said Friday, because of a “disconnect between students and adults.” “When a guy uploads a picture a girl has sent him, he is breaking the trust she placed in him and shows a lack of empathy and morals. “Boys must respect girls that trust them enough to send intimate photos,” she wrote. In her opinion piece, Sofia said boys who uploaded the photos were the “main problem.” “But I definitely think it’s an overarching theme in everyone’s life - that boys think it’s OK to do this to girls, and when it happens to girls no one really wants to go out of their way to change it,” she said. Sofia said she wasn’t sure whether the girls who provided nude photos of themselves to boys were thinking about the effect that could have on boys’ attitudes toward women. “I think it’s more of a societal question.”
“You need to treat women and girls with the respect they deserve, and that’s not what’s happening,” she said. Ultimately, Sofia said teenagers need to change the way they feel about the “objectification of girls.”
More than anything, I just hope that this issue sparks a conversation among adults and students and they really talk about this because it’s not just happening here it’s happening all over.” “From your article, I understand that Moraga police got it shut down. I pointed out that she already has done something to change that. And if I can do anything to help that, I’d like to.” “And it highlights a bigger problem in society - that girls are being treated like objects - and that’s not fair at all. “It’s just not fair and not OK,” she said. This realization unleashed a strong reaction in Sofia. But everyone was talking about it, and it was (true).” “When I first heard about it, I thought it couldn’t be true. “I didn’t like the idea of it,” she said. Sofia, on the other hand, wanted to address it head-on. “Everyone just kind of talked about it, but no one really addressed it as an issue.” “It was pretty common knowledge around school,” she said. Sofia Ruiz, the 15-year-old sophomore who in January wrote an explosive opinion piece in The Mirador about boys uploading photos to the site, explained to me Friday why she wrote the story, called “Lamorinda Nudes Dropbox Must Come Down.”
GIRLS NUDE DROPBOX FULL
Follow her at /tunedtotheresa or /TheresaHarringtonBANG.Ī Miramonte High student journalist’s tenacity recently led police to shut down a Dropbox website full of photos of nude and scantily clad Lamorinda girls and young women. Read more and post comments at /onassignment.
This is an excerpt of On Assignment, education writer Theresa Harrington’s blog on Contra Costa County schools.
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