This was just a forum that he decided to setup on his own time. Non-school server - free service. It was supposed to be place for kids to get help on their homework and talk about stuff. She told me that she had asked the school's IT department to hack in and make copies of all the messages - private ones included - so that she could make sure that no one was "bashing the teachers".
What's being described is unconstitutional and illegal. Even kids have their constitutional rights and infringement of their privacy so as to censor free speech is downright wrong.
No other witnesses to the phone conversation, but I'm pretty sure she would admit to it in public because she doesn't seem to realize that there might be something wrong with what she did. She is referring to some new "legislation" that gives her authority.
No legislation provides the layman the right to break the law to see if someone is bad-mouthing them. This is typical of persons in authority believing their position merits them some kind of privilege beyond their due entitlement. They are not law enforcement officers and do not have a license to hack.
That said, the most likely truth is the forum simply required a user to register and anyone can get on a view the public posts, or a student with admin rights on the board may have been coerced into giving up their password. People are prone to exaggeration any any success in this kind of cyber-espionage is promoted to claims of having hacked teh system(tm).
I bashed my teachers. My friends bashed their teachers. We spent ages talking, drawing cartoons, writing insults and generally being kids at school. I would simply ask the principle what sanction they planned on taking against any student "bashing the teachers" in this forum?
I'm going to end my rant now by expressing my frustration at how educational authority seems to take such perverse pride in controlling as much of the lives of it's students as it possible can. Who's serving who?
Jimbob
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