Student Accidentally Exposes How Awful Some Of The Well-Known People In Her Neighborhood Actually Are After Sharing A School Project

"Local kid uncovers proof that an educator is not safe to be around children, but the school is only interested in sweeping everything under the rug?"

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Published in Interesting
1 Apr 2022

Student Accidentally Exposes How Awful Some Of The Well-Known People In Her Neighborhood Actually Are After Sharing A School Project

A school project meant to show off a neighborhood turned into an unexpected callout of the people living in it. One student filmed her street for a Spanish assignment, only to end up exposing a racist driver and a yelling neighbor in the process.

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What started as a simple class task got messier once classmates recognized the people in the video and started identifying them in the comments. The teacher then pulled the clip from the school website and questioned why the student had not gone straight to the authorities.

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Now the student is stuck defending a project that followed the assignment, but also revealed a lot more than anyone expected. Read on.

OP is asking if she was the a**hole for shedding light on the problems in her neighborhood

OP's class was given a project where they show around their neighborhood while describing it in Spanish

OP went with the video naturally

During OP's filming, someone in a car catcalled her, and when she jokingly retaliated, they yelled back something racist

OP wanted to clarify her ethnicity

OP continued with her project according to the rubric and edited out some unnecessary scenes

There was a second part to the assignment where they had to post it on the school website; this is how they found the identity of the guy in the car

OP asked more about him, and then another classmate recognized the yelling neighbor

The next day, OP was told by her professor that the way she showed her neighborhood was not right, but OP pointed out that she was only following instructions

The discussion continued, and the teacher explained that she had removed the video from the site since it was not the right way to shed light on the situation

She was called in for a meeting the next day and is doubting whether she was the a**hole for posting the video that exposed the people in her neighborhood

OP provided an update on the meeting

Before it happened, however, she did different things first to ensure that they wouldn't ignore the problem the video brought up

A teacher she trusted was also asked to sit in on the meeting, and they ensured that OP wouldn't miss any classes because of it

There was a strategy to OP's approach in the meeting

She bluntly stated what she knew and tried to gather information during their process

They were surprised, but they saw how serious OP was about the involved legality

OP also humbly apologized if there was anything she did wrong, and she thanked everyone in the comments who suggested ways to handle it

There was nothing that OP had done to provoke the actions of the person who catcalled her

It was harsh, but everything that was depicted was part of reality

Before OP provided an update, many Redditors made suggestions on how she could deal with the situation

Her phone was a significant part of her protection, and they had no right to touch it

OP shouldn't cower under the pressure they put on her, but rather the other way around

OP can trick them too without technically lying about it

There was concern over having OP's parent present in the meeting

They also pointed out that sweeping dirt under the rug happens often with school administrations

But OP explained why they chose a teacher instead of her parents

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There are many pros and cons whichever way OP chooses to approach it

This is a sad story from an OP whose brother got caught up in a bad school administration

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