Posted on 04/17/2019 6:11:28 AM PDT by bgill
Parents have been using apps and GPS devices to keep track of their kids for years, but now a local school district wants to prohibit parents from using one feature while their students are in school. Lake Travis ISD's board will vote Wednesday on a policy change to prevent parents from using devices to listen in to their kids while they're at school. It's a legal issue, the district told KXAN. Parents who are discreetly listening in to their kids might also be listening in on other children, and in addition to raising privacy concerns, the practice could violate federal wiretapping laws, said Amber King, LTISD's legal counsel. The language in the proposed policy change would require parents to get permission from the district before sending kids to school with devices that allow them to listen in, and it would prohibit them from using that function while their students are on campus or at a school-sponsored event.
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There is a control freak neurosis in Texas that often manifests itself in nutty needless new laws or rules like this.
Here is a quaint idea, how about no cell or smart phones on school property. How about a cell free zone 100 yards from all school property while we are at it.
‘Smells like the schools don’t want parents to know what’s going on inside them.’
Now that the schools use electronic delivery means, they have the ability to modify a ‘textbook’ on a dime - in other words change the content between what a kid sees in the classroom and the much milder content that a parent sees that same night.
Given that power, the LAST THING they will accept is parents being able to monitor what’s going on their classrooms.
Not a bad idea. I'd add a rider to that rule with video monitoring of the classroom that a parent can review. Sort of like having body cameras on cops.
That’s how it is at the school where I teach. It makes life so much easier. Of course, kids still try to sneak their phones in all the times.
Just the classroom.
They need to to be hidden, to get away with what they are doing there.
What a load..!
The teachers union is pissed about the possibility of parents listening on HOW THEY TEACH.
Or how they go about doing all manner of stuff but NOT teaching.
They simply don’t want to be held accountable.
They won’t settle for simply not being accountable, they want for it to not even be POSSIBLE.
I agree with your sentiment. however my 3 teens don’t leave without their cell phones. 2 are in private school where they are not allowed to have one. Even when they go to summer Bible camp, they are going to have access to call me if there is an emergency. They are smart about it. As a federal agent, I promised my wife that if there is a catastrophe at work they will not find me in the shelter in place. The people who died in the world trade center below the floors where the planes hit, died waiting for a rescue person to tell them to leave. Watch heros of 9/11. I refuse to die or have a family member die for obeying some idiotic, asinine, government bureaucratic idea of how to protect myself, like “shelter in place” or locked in a classroom waiting to be the next one shot because they don’t have a phone to call for help.
You all are right that they just don’t want the parents and public aware of the wholesome destruction of our children’s humanity in the public schools
It’s a legal issue, the district told KXAN. Parents who are discreetly listening in to their kids might also be listening in their whacko nutball Marxist anti-American teachers.
There. Fixed it.
Every classroom should have a video camera whereby parents may monitor the instruction. Public schools.
Ironically, kids videoing the fight on their cell phones aren’t limited by this rule. They can put it up on YouTube and share it with the world.
Bing! Bing! Bing! We have a winner!!!
Exactly
Yeah, no that’s all nonsense. Public schools equals public dollars equals public employees and public students.
Cameras everywhere, accessible by everyone 24/7, those paying the freight have every right to monitor the instruction and everything else.
Yeah, no that’s all nonsense.
Student “privacy” law is a federal law that was put in place twenty or thirty years ago (sponsored by Senator Buckley from NY). It predates HIPPA and pretty much makes student privacy nearly absolute. For example you cannot access your kid’s college grades unless he or she grants you permission—even though you are paying the freight.
It lets you listen in on what they are being carefully taught.
The kids may not recognize the sugar coated hate and lies that are being fed to them as fact but the parents have the right to know.
Of course I would just home school. It is like home cooking. You know exactly what went in the pot and you can adjust it to your child's likes and interests.
Makes you wonder what they are trying to hide.
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“But then it’s weird to constantly check on your kids.”
We homeschool but if we had to use a public school I’d want to be able to make sure the teachers were not causing problems for my kids.
It used to be that schools weren’t so bad either.
But some of us saw what was coming earlier than others. And things have gotten exponentially worse over the last few years, as things are wont to do.
For at least the past 40+ years in Texas I was under the belief that as along as at least one party of a conversation was aware that a conversation was being recorded or listened in on it was legal. Ie the child knowingly allows their parent to listen in to them on their phone should suffice. Seems the school is afraid their socialist and forced Sharia law indoctrination will be outed and possibly shut down
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