Is the take-home message that students should never criticize school personnel if they’ve ever worn a Soviet trench coat, or that they shouldn’t criticize gun control advocates? Is this what we get when DHS issues lists of “warning signs” or “red flags” that could apply to so many people? Or was the school right to want a psychiatric evaluation…
Category: Youth & Schools
Special Rights For Special Needs
Scott Greenfield writes: As Jacob Sollum notes at Reason, the good news is that the en banc Eighth Circuit held that blanket drug testing for students at Linn State, or officially, State Technical College of Missouri, was unconstitutional. Last week a federal appeals court ruled that requiring incoming students at a state college to surrender their urine for drug testing…
Privacy? What’s Not To Like?
Back in March, I linked to an article in The Telegraph, “French parents ‘could be jailed’ for posting children’s photos online.” And in September, I linked to an article about an Austrian teen suing her parents for violating her privacy by posting her pictures online without her consent. Now Scott Greenfield has a post about the…
Defending Student Data from Classrooms to the Cloud: 2016 in Review
Soraya Okuda of EFF recaps 2016 developments: In classrooms across the country, students as young as kindergarteners are turning on school-issued devices and logging into their online school accounts. While students and teachers can benefit from educational apps and services, behind the scenes edtech companies are inhaling troves of data on students, often without the…