Derek Healey reports: Education Scotland is facing “very difficult questions” after being forced to order a hard reset of all passwords across its national digital learning platform following a major security breach. An email distributed to headteachers and seen by The Courier has revealed how management called for all log-ins to be scrapped after it…
Category: Youth & Schools
Penn State employee charged with recording videos of students in bathroom
Evan Hinkley of WTAJ reports: A Penn State employee is charged with a total of 76 counts of invasion of privacy — all in a Bryce Jordan Center men’s bathroom. Police say since last year, 43-year-old Charles Chamberlin, Jr. videotaped a total of 22 victims urinating inside a men’s bathroom while he was hiding in a…
Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter
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…
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…