Mike Masnick has a story where the main issue is free speech rights of students but the subplot interests me as much – the fact that a school is constantly monitoring its students’ tweets, even on their own time and equipment: The principal at Garrett High School claims their system tracks all the tweets on…
Category: Youth & Schools
Et tu, Brazil? Brazilian schools microchip T-shirts to cut truancy
Schools in Brazil have started to place computer chips in school uniforms to keep track of pupils and reduce truancy. Some 20,000 pupils in the north-eastern city of Vitoria da Conquista will have microchips embedded in their school T-shirts. The parents will get a text message when their children arrive at school, or if they…
ACLU of PA Sues Solanco School District Over Student Drug Testing Policies
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania and Dechert LLP filed a lawsuit in state court yesterday on behalf of a Solanco School District (Lancaster County) sixth grader and her parents to stop the school district from requiring students who participate in extracurricular activities, including athletics and academic competitions, to submit to suspicionless, random drug…
Dharun Ravi found guilty in Rutgers webcam spying trial
Megan DeMarco reports on a case that has been closely watched here: Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi was found guilty today on most counts in connection with using a webcam to spy on his roommate’s liaison with another man, in a high profile case that sparked awareness of cyber-bullying and harassment of gay teenagers….