Who knew you don’t have a right to keep your math scores between you and your teacher?
Why does a woman have a right to privacy to mutilate herself and her baby in the womb, but a child does not have the right to keep vultures out of his school records? Since when does the state have a right to your brain?
This is the permanent record they always talked about.
The database is a joint project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which provided most of the funding, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and school officials from several states. Amplify Education, a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, built the infrastructure over the past 18 months. When it was ready, the Gates Foundation turned the database over to a newly created nonprofit, inBloom Inc, which will run it.
So all this sensitive data is stored by inBloom at https://www.inbloom.org/?
Hackers love a good challenge.
Wanna bet these databases will include whether or not the parents voted Democrat, and whether it is known if they own guns?
In 1975 when I got my TSEC Security Clearance I was able to see the over 1” thick background file. It included not only every grade I ever had, but comments from every teacher all the way back to first grade.
So, the Government has has access to this info for a very long time.
My mother saw this coming in the early ‘60s. She even said someday all that stuff they wrote about kids in school would be in a computer. (Right again, Mom.)
My sister’s 12 year old g/daughter is being tracked, it’s voluntary. Her G.D. is a high achiever and was told about a possible scholarship at one of the “ivy league” schools. Seems a bit early to dangle that for a 7th. grader.
My sister looks at it as a good thing. This is the first I’ve heard of it except from her.
Ultimately, the database will be used to collect personal and family information. Once each child has a school computer, data will be collected regarding beliefs and behaviors, and then a remediation plan will be developed to disabuse children of their parents archaic (i.e., religious) beliefs.
This bypasses teachers, who generally undermine these kinds of nefarious Department of Education programs, and parents, who will never see anything. No hard copies.
Sam Blumenfeld talked about this over 20 years ago. Look up "School to Work."
Keep your kids in the schools, though. The babysitting is free. And I'm sure your kid's school is different.
Still don't believe me? Then read this letter written on Nov. 11, 1992 by Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), which lays out a plan "to remold the entire American system" into "a seamless web that literally extends from cradle to grave and is the same system for everyone," coordinated by "a system of labor market boards at the local, state and federal levels" where curriculum and "job matching" will be handled by counselors "accessing the integrated computer-based program."