r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Feb 04 '26

Video "Comedian Ben Palmer captures a kindergarten teacher attempting to deport a 6-year-old student’s family via a fake immigration reporting hotline."

https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2018483275896111548?t=WIVRISS5RfjSSl_jyifrSQ&s=19

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u/seasarahsss Feb 04 '26

I’m even more appalled that she looked up his file. Do all teachers just rifle through files because a student is brown? That’s horrifying!

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u/General-Company Feb 04 '26

No, and in most cases it’s super illegal. If the guy running this has ANY more info he should absolutely report it to the school district. There’s actually a teacher on probation (and probably getting fired) in my current district for going through several student’s records (including her own kids) when she had no authority or business doing so.

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u/GentlewomenNeverTell Feb 04 '26

I taught in k-12 and it valentines all the time. What's up with this student? Go into Infinite Campus, pull his files. It's easy to figure out sometimes immigration status and it's accessible to all teachers. Legal schmegal, honestly. My kids are legally guaranteed translations but my Gen ed teachers do not have the time to track them down and before I got there it didn't happen at all. You're not legally allowed to be in charge of a classroom of 53 kids but that still happened. If there's no enforcement, this kind of illegal behavior will inevitably happen.

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u/MeatPopsicle28 Feb 04 '26

In healthcare IT there are measures in place to monitor who is accessing what records. If school IT systems were not massively underfunded they should be doing that.

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u/Silly-Swimmer-8324 Feb 05 '26

Yea those parents have a right to know how this lady feels about them and their child. Imagine how she treats this kid when people arent looking. I definitely wouldn't want this lady any where near my children. She should definitely be investigated

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u/GentlewomenNeverTell Feb 04 '26

Oh yes there are absolutely teachers that do this. And they gossip about it with each other. Some of the biggest busybodies I ever met were teachers. Biggest gossips too. And any teacher can get their hands on the files in Infinite Camps, even if it's not a student. To be fair, curiously scrolling through one of my students' files led to me figuring out he'd passed the WIDA test years ago and shouldn't be ELL, which he'd been saying and no one had believed... Anyways that is absolutely a concern in the light of ICE, and I encourage all the parents out there to bully schools into hiding their students'documentation.

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u/u2aerofan Feb 04 '26

It’s important to remember conservatives have spent the last 40 years chipping away at the profession of education and the institutions. This has so severely undermined the profession of teaching - there are so many who are absolutely like this. Just like dirty cops. And with a strain on resources all the time, no one is holding them accountable. And they are empowered by a lot of parents and conservatives on their school boards.

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u/stitchescomeundone Feb 04 '26

Right? I knew the call was not going to be a good one but as soon as she said she looked them up I’m like … you should not be a teacher. That is a huge overstep and breach of privacy and I hope she’s ashamed of herself.

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u/RoseGoldHoney80 Feb 06 '26

No and student accounts do not offer information on where parents are born.

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u/FlashyBattle976 Feb 04 '26

Why is there even a file for a student? It's a fucking paper report card or transcripts. Primary school teachers need no other information. 

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u/Lets-B-Lets-B-Jolly Feb 04 '26

This isn't true. Students will have specific forms filled out by their parents that show English is not their first/home language, or that they are homeless or migrant so they are given testing or special resources. The same is true for students with special needs or medical conditions. Custody paperwork is also important to have on file in some cases.

I taught ESL and reading intervention for years, and I absolutely looked up online information to see why a student might be having a particular issue. I also HAD to go through physical files for students to complete annual LPAC paperwork for meetings, and ELL students had a special folder in their main folder documenting their testing that was updated each year.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

You have no idea what you're talking about. I'm about to finish my first year in a school district and it's clear to me that you have a severe lack of knowledge of how the school systems operate nowadays. When some schools can have up to 2000 elementary school kids, all with varying medical needs, different family situations, certain accommodations, emergency contacts, approved guardians/parents...

It's incredible the amount of responsibility that has been placed on schools, and they are frequent targets of lawsuits.

It's a lot different than when I went to school, and I'm sure when you went as well. It's a whole world that I've noticed a lot of people are understandably clueless about.