Fiona Macleod reports: Hundreds of school children across Scotland are having to use biometric identity systems to get into libraries and claim meals, according to new figures. The statistics show 68 schools have introduced the systems, which often use fingerprint technology. The figures, obtained by the Scottish Liberal Democrats through a freedom of information request,…
Category: Youth & Schools
UK: CCTV ‘used to monitor schoolchildren in toilets and changing rooms’
Graeme Paton reports: Schools are using CCTV cameras to spy on pupils in toilets and monitor teachers’ performance in the classroom, according to an official report. The use of video surveillance has evolved in recent years from a security measure to a tool to keep checks on children and staff, it was disclosed. A report…
“Just ignore” teen gossip sites? I think not.
Sophie Radice has a commentary about gossip web sites in the Guardian that free speech advocates may embrace : I still remember the horror of discovering that the phantom scribbler who had been writing stuff on the desks and lavatory walls had written something about me: “Sophie is a slag, who wears too much make-up”…
Student Punished Over Facebook Rant Settles Lawsuit
Matthew Heller writes: A former Florida high-school student is officially no longer a cyberbully after winning a settlement in her free-speech lawsuit against a principal who disciplined her for venting about a teacher on a Facebook page. The settlement provides, among other things, that Pembroke Pines Charter High School will expunge Katherine “Katie” Evans’s three-day…