Davene Jeffrey reports: Halifax regional school board head Carole Olsen says it was her husband who leaked a video of a principal scuffling with a 14-year-old student at Graham Creighton Junior High School in Cherry Brook. The superintendent, with board chairman Irvine Carvery at her side, told media Friday morning that Christopher Olsen, her partner…
Category: Youth & Schools
L. Merion, insurance firm spar over webcam costs
John P. Martin reports: The Lower Merion School District argued Friday that the district’s insurer should pay what could be a million-dollar tab to resolve a lawsuit over its now-disabled laptop tracking program. In a counterclaim filed in federal court, attorneys for the district also accused Graphics Arts Mutual Insurance of New York of breaching…
UK: Children, 4, ‘to be fingerprinted to borrow school books from library’
Andrew Hough reports: Children as young as four could be fingerprinted to take out books from a school libaray (sic) […] The scheme is being trialled on junior classes at Higher Lane Primary in Whitefield, Bury, Greater Manchester. Officials confirmed it is due to be extended to all pupils at the school, one of the…
UK: Fingerprinting at St Martin’s School labelled as ‘Big Brother’ state
A school is accused of abusing children’s civil liberties with plans to record their fingerprints for school dinners. Such was the outrage from parents at St Martin’s School in Hutton, the idea was put on hold just a day after being unveiled while fears are quelled. The school wants to use state-of-the-art biometric finger mapping…