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 A South Carolina high school teacher has resigned after a nude picture of herself was posted on social media — but if anyone deserves blame, it's the student who shared it, she says. 
 
 Leigh Anne Arthur, a teacher at the Union County Career and Technical Center in Union, about 70 miles north of Columbia, said the picture was for her husband for Valentine's Day. 
 
 But on Feb. 19, while Arthur was on hall patrol duty, a student grabbed her phone from her desk, she told NBC affiliate WYFF. The unnamed 16-year-old, realizing the phone didn't have a passcode, allegedly thumbed through it. 
 
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 "He had to hit my apps button and to open up all my apps and then open my gallery," Arthur said. 
 
 The nude picture was sent to others via text and social media, prompting the Union Public Safety Department to investigate. 
 
 A department spokesman told NBC News on Tuesday that its review is still ongoing and no charges have been filed. 
 
 While Arthur says she's not entirely sure she even wants her job back teaching mechanical engineering and computer programming, students at the high school have started a petition supporting her. 
 
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 Union County School District interim Superintendent David Eubanks said that she either had the choice to go through the dismissal process or resign since it was determined she shouldered some of the responsibility to keep those "inappropriate" pictures private. 
 
 Either way, Arthur said, she forgives the student — but he should have known better. 
 
 "He had the ultimate decision to take pictures of my pictures, and he had the ultimate decision to send them out," she said. ||||| UNION COUNTY, SC (WSPA) — Leigh Anne Arthur, a teacher at the Union Co. Career & Technology Center has resigned after a nude photo of her was spread through the school says the Interim Superintendent for the school district. 
 
 The district says Arthur had nude photos of herself on her phone, and that a student took her phone while she was out of the room and took pictures of her picture. 
 
 The student then shared the photo throughout the school. 
 
 The district became of aware of the incident last Monday, and she resigned on Tuesday, according to the district. 
 
 Arthur reached out to 7News after seeing this article and told us her side of the story. 
 
 She says she the week of Valentines, she had some pictures in the gallery on her cell phone that were intended for her husband. 
 
 She said she left her cell phone on her desk to go out and be a hall monitor between classes. 
 
 In that time, 5 minutes, a student went and took pictures of her phone from his phone and shared them “with anyone in class who wanted them�?. 
 
 She said the kid then said at the end of class “your day of reckoning is coming.�? 
 
 Later, she was told what had happened, and checked with the student’s parents who she said were 100% on her side. 
 
 The kid went to principal and admitted it and two witnesses also went to the principal. 
 
 She says the principal asked for her resignation the next Tuesday. 
 
 She says the district told her there was no policy about “inappropriate material on her cell phone�? but they were firing her for that reason. 
 
 She was also in trouble for “making her phone easily accessible,�? according to Arthur. 
 
 She made a police report and the student’s phone is now in possession of Union County Sheriff’s Office. ||||| A Union County High school teacher has resigned after a student stole personal pictures off her cell phone. 
 
 Leigh Anne Arthur says one of her students took the pictures while she was out of the classroom and distributed it to other students. 
 
 Arthur has been a teacher in Union county for over 13 years, but that came to an end two weeks ago. 
 
 “He opened up my gallery for my pictures and he found inappropriate pictures of myself and he took pictures from his cell phone of that and then he told the whole class that he would send them to whoever wanted them,” says Arthur. 
 
 Arthur says the student warned her that something bad was coming. 
 
 “The student who actually took my phone and took pictures turned around and told me your day of reckoning is coming,” says Arthur. 
 
 Superintendent David Eubanks says the school has concern that Arthur could be contributing to the delinquency of a a minor. 
 
 Arthur said this wasn’t her fault and that she did not knowingly leave her cell phone sitting on her desk knowing that those pictures were on there. 
 
 She says even though her privacy was invaded by the student, the school district still wanted her to resign from her teaching position, which she did the following week. 
 
 “The whole premise of my privacy being invaded his being ignored and that’s what’s wrong,” said Arthur. 
 
 She says according to school district policy, the student should have been expelled, but to her knowledge, has not happened yet. 
 
 Arthur has one last message for the student who did this: “I forgive you. It don’t make it anymore right. But what’s done is done and I hope you learned your lesson. And I hope that you learned from this mistake and I hope that you have a wife one day that you treat like gold and you won’t want this to ever happen to her.” 
 
 Arthur says parents and students are signing a petition to have her teach again, and the amount of support has been overwhelming. 
 
 Arthur says she plans on pressing charges against the student next week.
– Leigh Ann Arthur taught in Union, SC, for 13 years. Then her decision to leave her unlocked phone on her desk on Feb. 19 put an end to her career. While she was on hall patrol duty for five minutes in between classes, the engineering and computer programming teacher at Union County Career and Technical Center says a 16-year-old student grabbed her phone and found a nude photo she had taken for her husband for Valentine's Day, per NBC News and WSPA. "He took pictures from his cell phone of that and then he told the whole class that he would send them to whoever wanted them," Arthur tells WSPA. After class, the student told her, "Your day of reckoning is coming," Arthur says. It was only later she found out the photo had been seen. The student indeed shared the photo through texts and on social media, superintendent David Eubanks tells WYFF, adding Arthur was given the choice to resign or go through a process for dismissal. She resigned last Tuesday. "I think we have a right to privacy, but when we take inappropriate information or pictures, we had best make sure it remains private," Eubanks tells the State. Arthur says the student hasn't been punished. She plans to press charges and has also complained to the Union Public Safety Department, which is investigating. "The whole premise of my privacy being invaded is being ignored and that's what's wrong," she says. Some 1,000 people have signed a petition to have her job restored, though Arthur says she's not sure if she'd take it. (In neighboring North Carolina, teenagers are the ones facing trouble over racy photos.)