NBC News, educators have been forced to resign, apologize, or have been fired. Raechele Pope, chief diversity officer for the University of Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education says the Zoom mishaps are only proof of a long-existing problem. “The pandemic, I don’t believe, is bringing this out,” Pope said. “The pandemic is bringing a lot of other things but we started to see it beforehand because cellphones have been so ubiquitous. And so someone pulls up a cellphone and captures a conversation people wouldn’t believe was happening before no matter how many times we told them it was happening.”