It all starts with a photo posted on Facebook. Gauthier*, a professor at the college for several years, does nothing in particular there. He smiles. But it's already enough. One of his students gets hold of it, records it on her phone and makes everyone believe it was sent to her. And he even wears a red sweater to show his
“love”
to her . The machine goes into overdrive, and within a few days Gauthier is accused of an
“inappropriate”
relationship with a minor.
It’s a situation
“which got out of hand so quickly
,” he laments today.
“But above all it was a humiliating and traumatic experience.”
The one who until then did not mean anything bad when discussing with his students at the end of classes, therefore decided to no longer take this liberty. He also completely locked his accounts on all platforms.
“Everything can be used by students, as long as it is published on the internet
,” immediately warns Maxime Reppert, vice-president of the National Union of High Schools…
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