Educators and Sexting

It is horrible to read about sexting with under-aged kids, but I think it makes it even worst when sexting happens with educators and under-aged kids. I recently read about a middle school teacher who met a young teenage online in a chat room and began sexting her. Of course he pretended to be someone else, but he used degrading verbiage to the young teenage to get her to send sexual pictures. And of course he knew he was doing wrong because he told his victims to delete any messages or pictures.  Thanks to authorities this teacher was caught and is looking at jail time. The fact is though; parents need to continue to talk with their tweens and teens about the dangers that lurk online whether the internet is access through a cell phone or laptop. Maybe it is setting a weekly date with your child to discuss how they are using their cell phone.