Sam Thompson reports: Principals want the power to search students for weapons and drugs this year. Thousands of students are heading back to school this week. President of the Secondary Schools Principals Association Patrick Walsh says guidelines were developed last year, but he wants the Education Act changed. “Two give schools specifically the power of…
Category: Youth & Schools
Data Privacy Day 2012
Today is the international Data Privacy Day. Each year for the past few years, this site has announced events and resources during the month of January. For this year, I had been working on some research affecting student privacy. As part of that research, I had filed requests under freedom of information laws and reviewed…
MO: Parkway School District shelves fitness monitors
Cynthia Billhartz Gregorian reports: The Parkway School District is taking away activity monitors given to elementary pupils for physical education classes due to a national controversy over privacy issues. The 75 Polar Active devices, which are worn on the wrist and cost $90 each, were distributed last year to third-, fourth- and fifth-grade pupils at…
UK: Use of CCTV in Welsh schools: FOI request shows lack of compliance with fair processing and FOI
It may have sneaked under the radar in and around Xmas but an FOI request in Wales to schools produced some alarming stats. There are at least 2,840 cameras in schools across Wales, one school in Cardiff has 40 cameras for around 190 pupils. Just over a third of all the schools in Wales responded…