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My daughter is 12, in 7th grade and a real sweetie but has had a few problems this school year with talking too much, running late and just once being disrespectful to a teacher (she was standing up for herself). This may not be the right forum but I trust the women (and men) at DU and would really like your opinion.

Long story short: Today at school, after returning to her class from the ladies room, my daughter was putting her make-up compact back into her backpack when her teacher thought she was hiding a 7-up and made her bring her pack up to her to be searched. She then told my daughter she would have to go to the office to have it (the backpack) returned to her.

My daughter went to the Vice Principal's office where she heard them talking about calling the police to view the video that was on the camera she had in her backpack. The teacher thought she'd been video-taping her classroom.

My daughter actually laughed and explained that it wasn't even a video camera, the battery had been in another pocket and that she hadn’t taken it out of her backpack. The VP questioned her about why she had it in her backpack and started looking through the pictures on it. There were only three shots on the camera - one of which was of my daughter in her new polka dot bra that she had taken of herself. NOT a kiddie porn posed picture like you see on myspace. It was a little girl can't-wait-to-show-my-best-friend picture. No make-up. No pose. (Truth be told she gets teased about being small and was excited that the bra maybe made her look older than 10.)

She was completely embarrassed and asked him not to look at that one but he did anyway and asked her (in an accusatory way) if I knew about it. He then went through the three photographs again stopping at the bra shot and then again and then again. She tried to get him to stop and finally reached over and pushed the off button while he was still looking. He turned it back on. She turned it off again and asked if she could have her things back. He had taken her cell phone, her i-pod and the camera. He told her he wouldn't return them to her until the end of the school year and then he assigned her a Saturday School Detention.

She left crying. A group of students became angry and vocal over the incident. Later, when her father came to pick her up, everything was returned to him without a word.

Any thoughts?