About 10 years ago, at 06:00 in the morning when I was living in a student dorm up north Sweden, all of a sudden several police in normal clothes entered my room and woke me up (I hadn’t locked the door). There was even an FBI present, but he was not included in the warrant so he had to ask my permission for everything he wanted to look at. Turns out some hackers used my father’s dialup account to get in to a US military email server about 3 years earlier. And for this I became the main suspect. I had to spend a day in the police house but was released in the afternoon. I was very innocent.
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]]>The only other thing I can come up with is probably questionable based on perspective, but while teaching I was accused of “humiliating” a student. The facts are these:
We were going to work on a poetry project that required the students to bring in resources from the library, Internet, etc. For two weeks prior to that day, I reminded students to bring their resources on that day. I sent email reminders, posted reminders on the board in the room and reminded them verbally. I also told them if they didn’t bring their resources, they wouldn’t have anything they could work on, so I would give them a writing assignment. The day the students were going to work on their project, one student didn’t bring anything in for resources (almost proudly so). And I gave her a writing assignment.
Her mother came into the school, told the principal I humiliated her daughter and demanded to have her removed from my class. The administration backed this parent. That was the beginning of the end of my teaching days, but I believe I was falsely accused of humiliating a student. I would never go out of my way to intentially do that. I was just enforcing a policy previously set. Obviously the parent doesn’t believe it was a false accusation…and evidently neither did my school’s administration. 🙁
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