Bethany Barnes has a long piece in The Oregonian that begins: The worried father understood that when school officials said they were putting his teenager through a threat assessment, what they meant was “We think the next school shooter could be your son.” Like almost every parent who sends a child to a school in…
Category: Youth & Schools
10 Things to Remember About FERPA and Foster Care
I’m not sure what is going to happen with all of the children who have been ripped from their families or who have been put in concentration camps if they crossed the border without any adult accompanying them. If any of my readers wind up fostering children at any point, I thought it might be…
NYCLU tries to block Lockport schools’ facial recognition project
Thomas J. Prohaska reports a follow-up to a situation I had mentioned on this site previously: The New York Civil Liberties Union has asked New York State education officials to revoke funding for a project to install facial recognition software in Lockport schools. The organization contends the Lockport school district’s plan endangers the rights of…
Illinois 13-year-old charged with eavesdropping felony for recording meeting with principal
Austin Berg writes: Paul Boron is 13 years old. And he’s facing a felony eavesdropping charge that could change the course of the rest of his life. His story stands as another chapter of controversy surrounding an eavesdropping law some experts have criticized as ripe for abuse and misapplication. On Feb. 16, 2018, Boron was…