Christopher Brocklebank reports: Prospective students at the University of California and California State University campuses may be asked to volunteer information when applying or enrolling next year on whether they are LGBT. This partially arises from an obscure state law aimed at discerning whether students at said institutions are getting enough services, including counselling. But,…
Category: Youth & Schools
Student fights drug testing
Matt Hutchinson reports: A Loyalsock Township High School senior’s final few months of activities and the district’s drug testing policy now rests in the hands of Lycoming County Judge Richard A. Gray. Gray heard arguments Tuesday during a preliminary injunction request that seeks to overturn Loyalsock Township School District’s random drug testing policy, which was…
High School Student Expelled For Tweeting Profanity; Principal Admits School Tracks All Tweets
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…
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…