I am still scratching my head over a situation in Greece, New York that went viral on the Internet. It started with four middle-school students tormenting and verbally harassing a grandmotherly bus matron. For the most part, she didn’t respond to their nasty comments, but the kids just continued and escalated. One of the tormenters…
Category: Youth & Schools
MN: Boys gave girl $5, soda to be locker room spy
Last month I noted a situation in a middle school in Minnesota where numerous students had been suspended, and I wondered why it required police involvement. Today, Meena Hart Duerson provides additional details in the Daily News: Earlier this year, students at Century Middle School in Lakeville began taking photos of girls’ behinds in the…
A tale of two FERPA’s
I’ve been somewhat foaming at the keyboard over a student privacy issue in Oklahoma whereby the state required parents and students to waive their federally protected privacy rights in order to secure an educational benefit. As I blogged previously, the waiver was overly broad, it did not clearly explain that the state would post identifiable…
Where will your kids be when the perfect storm occurs?
The perfect storm is on the horizon. Is there still time for American parents to protect their children from it? I watched it start years ago with school districts amassing tons of sensitive and personal information on children and their parents. Rather than prohibiting data collection or the use of Social Security numbers, however, the…