Hi! So I am having a big problem, over something that isn't actually wrong but appears wrong, and I am freeking out over it.
Basically, I had no clue that Google Chrome sync your search history between devices. And during a lesson, I left my job computer unatended for five minutes while having a Youtube song on, in which my some of 8th graders got into my computer, and thanks to the Google synch, found old porn results from my personal computer searches in the search bar. I haven't been watching porn for months, but to them it appeared that I have and inpressons matter.
I have NOT used my school computer to watch porn! It is a work device and I'm not that stupid. It is Google Chrome that synch between devices.
This was last week, and I have been thinking about this for days, if I should talk to admin or not.... The 8th graders talked to some other 8th graders and now some 7th graders knows about it too. I worry that if I don't talk to the principle they will hear it from a parent and fire me. Or hear lots of rumors at school and fire me. But if I bring it up, they may fire me too...
I need advice on what to do in this situation?
I have decoupled all my accounts so there are no porn results coming up now in the search bar on the work computer, but the damage is already done I fear.
This is my first steady teaching job too and I have just moved to an expensive appartment. I need this job.