The Rutherford Institute is demanding that a Massachusetts school district cease its practice of requiring students to complete surveys asking overtly intimate and sexually suggestive questions without their parents’ knowledge or written consent. In a letter to the Fitchburg City School Committee, Rutherford Institute attorneys warn that by allowing these surveys to be administered to…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: The Issue : Biometric technology
In the canteen at Valley School in Worksop, students pay for lunch by placing the tip of their finger on an electronic scanner. It matches their print against a stored image and debits their account accordingly. No cards, no cash, no queues. “It’s a very simple system,” says head Brian Rossiter. “None of the hassle…
Grand jury hands down 15-count indictment against roommate of Tyler Clementi
Tom Haydon reports: The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office today announced a 15-count indictment has been filed against a student alleged to have secretly viewed images of Tyler Clementi having an intimate encounter with another man just days before Clementi committed suicide. The defendant, Dharun Ravi, 19, of Plainsboro faces two counts each of invasion of…
U. of Ill. will appeal ruling that it must release names of applicants in admissions scandal
The Associated Press is reporting that the University of Illinois does plan to appeal a federal court order to release the names of students involved in an admissions scandal and filed for a stay on the judge’s order.