“Repeatedly I have parents come to me and say, ‘I didn't know,’” said Green. She wrote in 2014 that about two-thirds of teens surveyed in her research said “they were pressured or coerced into sexting at least some of the time.”īarbara Green, a psychologist in Hingham and medical director of South Shore Hospital’s Youth Health Connection, said Thursday that parents need to be vigilant about their teenage children’s use of digital media. Just as I have mentioned parental influence on the issues of drugs and alcohol, the issue of the dangers of placing pictures with or without a person's approval on the Internet is another topic that needs to be discussed in the home."Įlizabeth Englander, director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University and a professor of psychology, has researched the issue of sexting among adolescents and college students.
Please speak with your sons and daughters, if they are of an appropriate age about this issue. This issue is now in the hands of the police who will communicate their findings to the school district once their investigation is complete.
The police have also been working with DropBox to determine who created this file. The high school administrators did call the parents of the students to let them know what they had heard and that the police would be calling them. The Duxbury Police are investigating this issue and have been interviewing the students whose names appear on the list with their parents. Upon hearing this, the administrators immediately called our School Resource Officer, who in turn called the Chief of the Duxbury Police. These lists had files that were supposed to be pictures of our female students in a variety of undress. They received this information from one of our students. "The Duxbury High School administrators were made aware that a DropBox file had been created with a list of female students from Duxbury High School. "I am writing to you to inform our school community of a disturbing issue that came to light to our high school administrators," Tantillo said. In an email to parents, Tantillo suggested speaking with their children about the danger of posting photos without permission.
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