There was a small item on Bay News 9 that caught my eye: The Pasco County School Board has fired a high school Spanish teacher who was accused of snooping on her students’ Facebook accounts. Angelica Cruikshank, who taught Spanish at Land O’ Lakes High School, was let go Tuesday. Attorneys said Cruikshank wanted to…
Category: Youth & Schools
Ca: Concealed cameras in school washrooms have been removed, board says
Janet Bagnall reports: News that there have been, and might still be, secret surveillance cameras in school washrooms has upset parents whose children attend New Frontiers School Board schools in the South Shore community of Châteauguay. Wayne Goldthorpe, director-general of the school board, admitted he was swamped with phone calls from parents Monday after a news…
Where would a constitutional challenge to FERPA leave us?
Frank D. LoMonte has a commentary on Inside Higher Ed, “Why FERPA Is Unconstitutional.” In his commentary, he suggests that the Supreme Court’s ruling in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius (the “Obamacare” ruling) could also be applied to FERPA (the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act). You can read his analysis and argument on…
Judge won’t dismiss lawsuit accusing Minnesota school of demanding sixth-grader’s Facebook password
A lawsuit filed in March against Minnewaska Area Schools has survived a motion to dismiss. Bailey McGowan of the Student Press Law Center reports: Judge Michael Davis’ Thursday decision lets the student, identified in court documents as R.S., continue with her complaint arguing that the school violated her First Amendment right to free speech and…