They must think that students would use their real names so they could easily be tracked.
Exactly. How dumb can this school district be?
Not to mention that it is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS what kids posts anywhere..........
Parents have decided to make it the schools’ business.
We have become a society that threatens lawsuits at the drop of a hat.
Parents threaten to sue when their child is punished too harshly. They threaten to sue when their child is bullied.
This anti- bullying business has, naturally, progressed to parents threatening to sue when their child is bullied online.
When one school or state gives in and gets into the Internet monitoring business, it gives more ammo to use against other schools that have not yet done so.
Is your local school refraining from this? Good - but it won’t last long.
At some point a family will threaten to sue your local school for “doing nothing” while pointing out other schools who are “doing something” to fight online bullying.
And to further complicate matters, there really are a lot of teenage psychos saying the worst things imaginable to each other online.
This is old news. I didn’t read this article, but when this was first posted last month, I read that the school DID have some reasons to spy on the kids.
“Not to mention that it is NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS what kids posts anywhere..........”
When you have hundreds of kids posting social media posts and even threats directly related to the school and staff - then yeah. It IS the school’s business.