At a public junior high school in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, a conversation between teachers in the staff room was recorded on an app on a tablet terminal left behind by a student. I was.
The Iwakuni City Board of Education apologized, saying, "I am very sorry for causing anxiety to children."
According to the Iwakuni City Board of Education, on the 31st of last month, a teacher at a public junior high school in the city noticed that several students had left their study tablet terminals in the classroom, and kept them overnight at the desk in the staff room. That's it.
One of them had a recording app running, so the conversation between teachers in the staff room was recorded, and the teacher returned it to the student without realizing it.
The recorded conversation contained information about the student's daily life guidance and the teacher's personal feelings toward the student. That's it.
After that, one of the students who knew the contents of the data has not been to school since the beginning of this month, and one of the teachers whose conversation was recorded has not been able to go to work.
The school said that it visited the homes of all students who had audio data or whose names appeared in recorded conversations, apologized, and deleted the data.
At a press conference, Iwakuni City Board of Education Superintendent Toshiharu Moriyama apologized, saying, "I am very sorry for causing anxiety to the children, teachers, and people in the community." , We will provide thorough guidance on how to use tablet devices, and improve teachers to be careful of their behavior."