Teachers report having pictures shared across the internet and being set up for fake dates as part of increasingly inventive and ‘traumatic’ pupil pranks. Teachers are being humiliated by a growing social media trend whereby pupils play tricks to shame them, it has been reported. In another incident, a number of school workers saw photos of themselves shared across the internet after a student set up a fake online account posing as a colleague. Emma Robertson, co-founder of Digital Awareness UK, told the magazine it has seen a trend of online abuse and security violations of teachers, with the number of inquiries about the issue spiking in the past year. The organisation, which runs workshops on internet safety, is increasingly hearing from schools who want them to show staff how to protect themselves online, she said. One teacher was filmed by students bending over in a classroom and the footage was uploaded to YouTube. An Nasuwt teaching union poll of more than 1, members, published earlier this year, found nearly a third of teachers had suffered online harassment and victimisation in the last year. Being a victim of online abuse can be a very traumatic experience, which can potentially ruin lives and careers.
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