Katherine Leal Unmuth reports: Ever wonder who’s watching the kids? In several school districts across North Texas, thousands of security cameras monitor students during the school day, in an effort to keep campuses safe. As some school districts bulk up the number of cameras in schools, others are questioning access among administrators, security officers and…
Category: Youth & Schools
Students are not required by law to use Turnitin.com
Emily Jackson reports: According to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), students are not required by law to use Turnitin.com. Professors often require students to submit papers to this site to detect plagiarized work, but students are not legally required to do so. FERPA declares that student submissions must be voluntary. However, once…
Amnesty International calls for ban on virginity tests
Martine Ward reports: Worldwide charity Amnesty International has called for Indonesia to ban plans to introduce mandatory pregnancy and virginity tests on high school girls in the country. This week, it was reported that the head of a secondary school in Magetan, East Java, had forced pupils to undergo the tests before they received a…
UK: Peeping tom student filmed flatmates undressing
A university student secretly installed a video camera in the bathroom of a house in Bath to film his female housemates undressing. Peeping tom Edward Macey will now be listed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years and have to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to three counts of…